"How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?"

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Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

— Jonathan Franzen