“Guilt is easy, innocence is hard.”

“It was easy to deal with being invisible, but being noticed―that was something entirely different.”

“This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.”

“(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)”

“Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”

“What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.”

“With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.”