Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'

'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.

It was all my fault. I'd let them in, I'd broken my rules, and I was back at square fucking one!"- Jocelyn Butler

The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.

Harry was speechless. Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she was pretending she had, to get them out of trouble. It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.

You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.