I reflected that the genial glow that surrounds the doer of a good deed loses some of its warmth and brightness when the recipient meets every action… - Matt Hughes

"There are, occasionally, rarely, some difficulties," she admitted.
"That is a word that may cover a great swath of territory," I said, "from the low foothills of minor inconvenience to the insurmountable peaks of constant vexation."

"That is unfair," said Filidor.
Gavne shrugged. "Things are as they are. If you quest after justice, young women are the wrong continent to explore. They run more to clemency or spite."

Filidor was becoming more and more convinced that he had recently been inhabiting a reality that was at sharp variance to the rest of the world’s.