Important Quotations Explained
I suspected that each of my teammates hoped as fervently as I that Hall had been careful to weed out clients of dubious ability, and would have the means to protect each of us from one another's shortcomings.
Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress.
Finally I woke up enough to recognize that I was in deep shit and the cavalry wasn't coming so I better do something about it myself.
They helped outsiders find their way into the sanctuary and violate every limb of her body by standing on top of her, crowing in victory, and dirtying and polluting her bosom.
Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Sooner of later the divestiture of such a privileged innocence was inevitable, but when it finally happened the shock was magnified by the sheer superfluity of the carnage…
