Testing of the Potter Quotes

“Some people can accept bad circumstances in their own lives, but some may not want to suffer alone. You understand what I mean? You’ve known people like that already I bet, even as young as you are. It’s a human trait, and as I’m seeing, as people become quicker to put themselves first, they’re quicker to judge everything in relative measures, with themselves in the center of it all. It might come down to people feeling that it’s not so much them being sick, but them wanting you to be as sick or sicker than they are. Know what I mean, boy?”
― Arthur DeLozier, Testing of the Potter: Apocalypse: The Lifting of the Veil

“That was one of those old-timey country rules—Like when you never stay for dinner unless you’re asked a second time. The first asking is just being polite. Certain courtesies were unwritten but well understood by all.”
― Arthur DeLozier, Testing of the Potter: Apocalypse: The Lifting of the Veil