It converts something that was done to you into a license for everything you do to others.
Ezra could pity the wound.
He could not, watching his mother’s face across that table, forgive what the wound had been used to justify.
Chapter 13 — Redmond Consulting
Ezra spread the bank statements across the coffee table, and the second, smaller theft became visible in the daylight — the life Gideon had been quietly living.
High-end credit card payments.