“You never experienced the gift of children, and I hate that for you, because you won't understand how I can still love you,how, even though you took everything from me, you're still all that I have.”

“I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for you, son.I still do.”

“You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.”

“When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.”

“But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the beach, put a ring on Eleanor's finger instead.”

“When I was a boy, I passed a homeless man, drunk and begging on a street corner. My father, sensing my disgust, said something I never forgot, that I think of every time I see your face on the news or in the paper- "That man was once someone's little boy.”

“I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.”