Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. - Neil Gaiman

"Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")"

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

But Shadow kept things on the inside. It was one of the things he liked about the British: even when they wanted to know what was happening on the inside, they did not ask. The world on the inside remained the world on the inside.