She smiled. Everyone is greedy, she said. Even people who have all the money and power in the universe want more to protect what they already have. - J. M. McDermott

They looked up and Prince Tsui introduced himself and they didn’t care. Their stomachs were empty.

You will never understand freedom. You and your son will never understand true freedom. You think freedom is the throne of the world, where no one can alter your words, and no one can tell you what to do, and men live or die by the slight twitch of your eyebrow. That isn’t freedom. That is a life of fear.

I will not argue with you a moment more, said Adel. I am tired of the past, and there is so much to do in the present.