“He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.”
“A man shows he's a man by the way he corresponds to the expectations of those who are naive.”
“You’ve learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast.'What lesson might that be?''That the lessons never end.' He laughed, gingerly sipped his steaming tea. 'That ignorance is infinite.”
“There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence course.”
“He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson”
“The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”