“...language is never innocent.”
“Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.”
“Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.”
“What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals,...is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization...it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.”
“This was supposed to be innocent, Kellan!” I spat at him angrily. “We were never innocent, Kiera. How naïve are you?”
“There could never be innocence in a world without justice.”