You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
People ask without wanting to know.
If it's important, your heart remembers.
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.