“There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.”
“I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.”
“Kindness must be the highest virtue--don't let me forget that ever. Were I to strive for one thing only 'twould be to be kind to others, as you are, Catherine.”
“Charity can be a good thing. But the only cause I’ll support is because. Don’t ask me why.”
“One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smote, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb.”
“The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.”