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Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you’re your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It’s worde, but it’s so much better too.”

“Do you think it’s funny to be so serious when I’m not even out of high school?” she asked.
“I don’t see how it could be any other way,” said Lee. “Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time.”

“Thou mayest.” Er is altijd een keuze.

Het deel waarin ze namen bedenken voor de baby’s van Adam, the Cain-Abel story, vind ik heel mooi hoe ze dat deel uit de Bijbel bespreken en hoe dat eigenlijk slaat op iedereen.
“I think this is the best-known story in the world because it’s everybody’s story.”
De baby’s heten uiteindelijk Caleb en Aaron.