Kester wrote about people and since human nature doesn't change his observations hadn't dated. - Susan Howatch

I could always walk out on a husband. But I could never turn my back on a friend.

But magic can't operate without a magician, and being a magician can beat a man to his knees.

Barbarity's everywhere, that's the truth of it. Absolutely anyone is capable of absolutely anything.
My dear Papa, I had no idea you were such a cynic!
That's not cynicism, that's honesty — as you well know, dealing with criminals as you do, seeing the human race continually at its worst.