“Perhaps when you dug down to the core of evil, all you found was a void, an emotional numbness more terrifying than any malevolence. Was the demarcation line between decent people and bloodthirsty brutes so faint that it was possible to step over it without even feeling a twinge of conscience?”

“Perhaps when you dug down to the core of evil, all you found was a void, an emotional numbness more terrifying than any malevolence. Was the demarcation line between decent people and bloodthirsty brutes so faint that it was possible to step over it without even feeling a twinge of conscience?”

— Diane Armstrong