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I could not understand how the peculations of a larcenous clerk, petty and vain, could warrant such concern and attention. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 33, Sentence #263)

Better to recruit the naive, expecting no more, and interested in no more, than the fruits of common brigandage". I was terrified in the bow of the tiny rence craft, so near now to the canal boat, and the dread thing of such terrible mien, illuminated in the light of the two lanterns. I had not realized how important, and to so many, might be the recovery or acquisition of the former Lady Julia Leta of Ar, nor how widespread and diligent, how complex, and how costly, might be the efforts to achieve that aim. I could not understand how the peculations of a larcenous clerk, petty and vain, could warrant such concern and attention. How zealous are Goreans! I supposed a principle must be involved, one to be satisfied at all costs, to warrant such a disproportion between expenditure and achievement, between cost and value, between effort and success. Did I not know that the muchly sought, heinous, treasonous daughter of Marlenus of Ar, Talena of Ar, was safe in Jad, under the protection of Lurius, Ubar of Cos, whose schemes she had done so much to forward and abet, I might have dared to suppose it was she, and not a Lady Julia Leta of Ar, who was spoken of so obliquely as the "quarry". "Poor Adraste," I thought, "how content you might have remained in your humble, modest station, had you but known that your petty vanity and greed might lead to a dangling cage in a Street of Coins". - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 33)