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

He got in loud fights with Baba all the time. I don’t remember words. Words are never important in arguments, only how loud we shout them.

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.

We will not be giving ourselves up.
Death, then? said Seth.
Victory, said Prince Tsui.
Call it what you like, Seth replied, the end is the same.