She had a full measure of youth’s indifference to the past. - Glen Cook

Suvrin had a little too much of the politician in him. Too much of the kind of mind willing to let an individual go so the rest will not be inconvenienced.

“We all do that. In every day life it’s called making excuses.” True, raw motives are too rough to swallow. By the time most people reach my age, they have glossed their motives so often and so well they fall completely out of touch with them.

Smeds did not give a rat’s ass who ran things as long as they left him alone. Most people felt that way.