"Red is the color of sanctity. It’s the color pure girls will bleed when Elder Durkas tests them."

"They enrich themselves by your suffering—parasites, quite literally draining the blood from you."

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"All my novels are about moral questions ... Most of us want to believe in something: politics, religion, saving the w…"

"The street outside was a university bywater, once a good residential area, which had lately been reduced to the level…"

"She came out near the and turned hastily back towards the . The docks were no place for a woman to be wandering about…"

"was the great day of the week. To begin with, there was , early Mass with Holy Communion, or a late Mass where you we…"

"But his illness never attained the merciful degree of severity that would have entitled him to a spell in a lunatic a…"

"It’s not a story for people with thin skins and weak nerves, whom I would advise to replace this book on the pile at …"