“You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.”

“People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.”

“No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.”

“Rakkim would have loved to believed that another reason he wasn't convinced.”

“If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.”

“Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”