The devil and miss prym Quotes

“They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.”

“Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30”

“I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.”

“That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14”

“...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.”

“You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.”

“I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame.When we least expected it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready yet.The challenge will not wait.Life does not look back.A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”

“Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.”