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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
Treason (1988)
Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
Treason (1988)
I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
Treason (1988)
I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
Treason (1988)
Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
Treason (1988)
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
Treason (1988)
Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.
Treason (1988)
People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.
Treason (1988)
If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
Treason (1988)
I'm losing Savanna.
That's good. No one should own someone else.
Treason (1988)
For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.
Treason (1988)
I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
Treason (1988)
There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.
I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
Treason (1988)
I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
Treason (1988)
You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.
Treason (1988)
I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
Treason (1988)
Keep your freedom, keep your immortality, but somewhere along the line I hope you figure out what you're living forever for. What noble purpose you mean to achieve. Because you're no good to anyone here, not even yourselves.
Treason (1988)
Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
Treason (1988)
You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
Treason (1988)
You are not what you seem.
So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?
Treason (1988)