I won’t dismiss it from the list just yet. But it needs verification. Everything needs verification. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Pain hurts, sir. I don’t court it.

I think it (i. e., sainthood) is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

“I thought he was a bit creepy.”
Kareen stiffened. If you’d been cloned a slave, raised by terrorists to be a murderer, trained by methods tantamount to physical and psychological torture, and had to kill people to escape, you’d likely seem a little creepy too. If you weren’t a twitching puddle.