“People forced to live by conventions are always the first to enforce them.”
– G. Hodgman, “Bettyville”

“I wish we could erase all those – those atrocities,” she stammered…
“Never say that,” he insisted. “Say you want to make things right, to build a better future. But erasing the past – or worse, trying to rewrite it – is the tool of despots. Only by engaging with the past can we avoid repeating it.”
– Katharine McGee, “American Royals”

“It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor. But not Rhett. He admitted everything and laughed and dared her to say more.”
– Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind”