It's very sad to see that happen because her intentions were all good. It is disheartening, very disheartening.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.

It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.

...it's true that some if the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

What she did caught on with younger people in town. She loved it and was adamant about what she did. She thought she could help people.