" Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?”

He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I had seen for months.

“No, Camelot, not hope. Hope is for the weak; have I not succeeded in teaching you that? To hope is to put your faith in others and in things outside yourself; that way lies betrayal and disappointment. They didn't want hope, Camelot; they wanted certainty. What a man needs is the certainty that he is right, no self-doubt, no fleeting thought that he might be wrong or misled. Absolute certainty that he is right—that's what gives a man the confidence and power to do whatever he wants and to take whatever he wants from this world and the next. "

― Karen Maitland , Company of Liars