The piety, the gentleness, the honesty, the sensitivity, all the qualities she has learned to admire in herself, are invitations to violence; all her life, she has been groomed for the slaughterhouse. And though she is virtuous, she does not know how to do good.
how was he to know, since he was so young, that he would become a Spartan boy and she the fox under his jacket, eating his heart out
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