This passage in All the Devils Are Here is one that I often think about and keep coming back to. Again, the theme of choice is highlighted. I wonder how much weight these words and these themes have in the real world of LP readers. I think we all use them as guides, idealistic ways to think and act with some taking the lessons more to heart than others. As is the beauty of human nature.
They were talking about the Burghers of Calais.
His godfather nodded. “But it was compassionate to spare them. Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What’re you going to focus on? What’s unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you?” Stephen tapped the boy’s chest. “The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.”
This fits right in with the story of the two wolves. Which do you feed?
Yes, exactly what I was thinking too, Nancy.