“Daniel didn't have to shoulder his punishment alone anymore. It was something they could do together.”

“God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.”

“You don’t have to be scared anymore, Abby. We’ll figure something out, I promise. We’re in this together.”

“It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.”

“Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. "Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows.”

“we have no idea anymore what it means to feel guilty. The Communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them. Murderers have the excuse that their mothers didn’t love them.. . .No one could be more innocent, in his soul and conscience, than Oedipus. And yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done.”