“but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.”

“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.”

“There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.”

“You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?”

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

“That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.”