Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)

by Ken Follett

have a daughter, he thought, I will listen like that, so that she will know she is the most important person in the world.

He paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom.”

“We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good,”