The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful gree…

Lois McMaster Bujold
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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real. ✨ Shards of Honor. Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.
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