yielding Quotes

“On a recent visit Laura had watched with consternation as the child punished the doll. ‘I’m allowed to do this,’ he said, hitting it less, Laura felt, out of jealousy for the new baby, than because he had been given the chance to be infinitely cruel to something infinitely yielding.”

“Death is welcome when it comes; but to yield- never!”

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk.