“Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.”

“The most dangerous identity is that of victim. Once we see ourselves as victims, we can clearly identify a enemy. Steeped in our own victimhood, we no longer feel bound by moral considerations in becoming perpetrators.”

“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.”

“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.”

“Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against!Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it...”

“It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim”