There are many steps on the continuum between controlling something and doing nothing at all. - Orson Scott Card

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.

“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”