“I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold.”
“What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.”
“There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.”
“The thing about the past is you can't fix it. It's not there. It won't stay put.”
“I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?"Because you would never leave me.”
“But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”