“There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling—terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits—or if she has any, she hasn’t found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.”
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“A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.”
“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”