“Nice people sometimes do terrible things because they don't want to do one small mean thing. It doesn't automatically make them a bad person forever.”
“Nice people always make me want to do bad things.”
“There's a difference between being good and doing bad things. Sometimes, a person does something because he doesn't have a choice. He might not like what he did... but it doesn't make him bad.”
“Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.”
“Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.”
“People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)”