The Award Quotes

“Does it matter? There’s no morality in it, David. Isn’t that what we write about, one way or the other, when we write fiction? Characters groping for any sign of morality amid one cataclysm after another.” David”
― Matthew Pearl, The Award: A Novel

“Sometimes you seem more like a kind of mathematician of ethics, inventing formulas that add up to what is moral, what is just.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Award: A Novel