“Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”
“Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.”
“He was as much a victim of hope as I had been.”
“They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don’t have to prove anything to me.”
“I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.”
“The phrase “The cat’s out of the bag” tells that a secret’s been exposed to the world. But who put the secret, or cat, in the bag in the first place? I thought only kidnap victims were supposed to be kept in bags. ”