It is amazing how well the worst ones think of themselves, and how little the best ones do. - John C. Wright

Miss Daw said, half to herself, “Now you have had your first lesson in what it is like to be a real grown-up woman in a man’s world, my dear. We are judged by our looks, and men are not.”

We are indeed human beings. We are merely not Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is a species, something into which one is born. Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.

There is no magic, only mysteries explained, and mysteries unexplained.