Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because I believed you loved me the same way...will you tell me that's not true? No, he said after a moment, so softly I could barely hear him. His hand tightened harder on mine. No, I willna tell ye that. Not ever, Claire.

Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.

Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.