Ange

“See, kid, there's all kinds of bad inside", he says. "Blokes who start good and turn bad; blokes who seem bad but aren't bad at all; and then there's the blokes who are bad in blood and bone because they're born that way. That about describes half of those screws in Boggo. They took those jobs inside because they were drawn to their own kind, all those rapists and killers and psychopaths they were pretending to help rehabilitate when all they were doing was feeding their own evil beasts that lay dormant inside the cells of their own fucked-up heads.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“Should have told you then that it's nothing but a choice. There's no past in it, there's no mums and dads and no where you came froms. It's just a choice. Good. Bad. That's all there is.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“He said so many things, and I reckon all those things put together wouldn't say as much as he said when he'd wrap his arm around my shoulder.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“This world can be a trying place, Inspector. Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel