The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. - Frank Herbert

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.