Kindle Notes & Highlights
“You can call it an attitude if you wish,” he says. “I call it self-respect.”
Any value above zero equals hope.
“I guess there’s no way to love without being a little bit selfish. You want to give everything to the other person, but there’s also something you want for yourself, more than you’ve ever wanted anything before.”
“There’s an ancient Russian proverb,” Abel says. “It goes, ‘Never celebrate the death of the czar.’” Noemi frowns. “You mean—don’t get excited about one power falling before you know what might replace it.” “Exactly. No one should take heart when war begins.”
Holy war can be righteous, she thinks, but it’s been used to excuse a lot of terrible things, all the way back to the beginning of human history. It’s important to ask whether a war is just before declaring it holy.
there’s a thin line between justice and vengeance.
