If evidence is collected, if confessions are made, if a verdict of guilty is entered in a court of law, then its happening becomes as the rocks and rivers, and to argue that it didn’t happen is to argue with reality itself.
Even confessing feels good under the right circumstances.
You’d be surprised at the things that people will and won’t confess to.[to Colin]
You want me to just list my sins?[Lance Durand]No, that would take too long. Just give us the big ones. You know, human trafficking. The kind that would make someone want to kill you.[Alex Cross]
This is Servilia’s work. With Antony gone she thinks she can just do as she pleases.[Atia of the Julii]If you know it’s her, why are you torturing him?[Octavia of the Julii]Because it isn’t a legal confession unless there’s torture.[Atia of the Julii]
The love between a man and wife is sacred. It reflects the love the gods have for all of us. But sin leads us away from the sacred. And only confession can purge sin.
The best thing telling a lie is when you get to start telling the truth. It really does kind of set you free.[to Antonio]
Some believe confession helps a guilty soul find peace, releasing us from the shame and regret of our mistakes. In the face of mortality, many feel the need to seek this closure to make things right. Because if death doesn’t kill us, our demons will.
People don’t want apologies. They want confessions. They want you to stand there and list all the shitty ways you’ve hurt them so they know you understand.
Just because somebody knows something, doesn’t mean that they don’t need to hear it from the person who hurt them.[to Oz]
It can build trust when you confess your own flaws.
I’ll take evidence over a confession any day of the week.
