“Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve.”

“Wherever we find monsters, there, too, we also find heroes.”

“Life is too small a container for certain individuals.”

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

“Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.”

“I couldn’t have loved her more if she was my own child. But sometimes I considered shaving her eyebrows off while she slept.For the sake of developing her character.”

“Lawyers, I suppose were once children, too”