It’s not enough to just plead your client’s innocence. You need to provide a narrative. And not just in the courtroom, in the world.
It’s easier when you’re a kid anyway. You don’t have anybody else relying on you. That’s the hard part.[to Henry, about Sam]
It’s always the innocent who pay most dearly for the things we men do.
Innocence in all things is beautiful and terrible.
I told you I’m f***ing innocent.[to Dr. Ventris, after killing an inmate in Arkham]
I don’t plan on hibernating. I was innocent before and I’m innocent now. I’ve got work to do.
How does someone prove their innocence without explaining why they’re innocent?
Getting arrested that makes people look guilty, even the innocent ones, and innocent people get arrested every day.
Even though you are children, and the elders in your life have lived longer, many times, adults need the faith of children. And if you hold on to this faith, really tightly, someday soon you will understand all of what I am saying to you.
Employees of this office are very small and delicate. Deserve protection from local pervs. Better a thousand innocent men are locked up than one guilty man roam free.
Do you know what my favorite thing about children is? Never afraid to say “I don’t know.” Everything, every day, is an adventure and a mystery. They devour the world.[to Lee]
At the beginning, everyone’s pure. And then life happens to us, and we go out into the world and maybe we make choices that lead us from our true selves. And if we don’t turn back from those choices in time, if we don’t turn it around, we’re changed forever.
