Abbie Day

“But since lack of empathy was an expression that the investigator had also used a few minutes earlier in connection with my way of recounting the facts, I reminded her of what I had said initially, namely that empathy is expressly discouraged and it isn’t hard to understand why. Either you save, or you sympathise.”
― Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“There are only two possible explanations, as far as I can see, each as damning as the other. Either your attitude stems from a particularly stupid line of reasoning, by virtue of which, in an attempt to escape the obvious liabilities and avoid acknowledging anything whatsoever, you are getting yourself into a far more serious liability: or else you are quite consciously trying to sink yourself”
― Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“Also, I have to do it with the means available, and that’s something we might talk about, the means available, or rather the lack of means available for carrying out these missions,”
― Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat

“It might have been an idea to ask this question, in seeking to shed light on the matter, and it might then have become clear that what happened to them was simply, in the end, the outcome of a long process or a long story that had nothing to do with me. I was just the last link in the chain, when it was almost too late.”
― Vincent Delecroix, Small Boat