"But to eat a human being? They would never, so they thought, have been capable of anything that horrible. And they were amazed that it had been so very easy for them and that, embarrassed as they were, they did not feel the tiniest bite of conscience...When they finally did dare to look upon each other, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of love" (Suskind 310).