“All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.”

“Though he’d never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.”

“surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.”

“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”

“When the worst that can happen already has, there's not much left to be afraid of anymore,right?”

“I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.”