Status Updates From Doubt by Shanley, John Patr...

"If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act." (24)

This reminds me a lot of James Baldwin's quote of innocence as complicity: “[A]nyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”