Innocence Quotes

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Rusty Sabich: [voiceover] The murder of Carolyn Polhemus remains unsolved. It is a practical impossibility to try two people for the same crime. Even if it wasn't, I couldn't take his mother from my son. I am a prosecutor. I have spent my life in the assignment of blame. With all deliberation and intent, I reached for Carolyn. I cannot pretend it was an accident. I reached for Carolyn, and set off that insane mix of rage and lunacy that led one human being to kill another. There was a crime. There was a victim. And there is *punishment*.

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Ellen Olenska: I think we should look at reality, not dreams.
Newland Archer: I just want us to be together!
Ellen Olenska: I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as your mistress?
Newland Archer: I want... Somehow, I want to get away with you... and... and find a world where words like that don't exist!

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Barbara Sabich: You understand what happened had to happen. It couldn't have turned out any other way. A woman's depressed - with herself, with life. With her husband, who had made life possible for her, until he was... bewitched... by another woman. A destroyer. [teary]
Barbara Sabich: Abandoned. Like someone left for dead. She plans her suicide... until the dream begins. In the dream, the destroyer is destroyed. That's a dream worth living for. [dreamy]
Barbara Sabich: Now, with such simplicity, such clarity, everything falls into place. It must be a crime that her husband can declare unsolved and be believed by all the world. She must make it look like a rape, but she must leave her husband the clues. Once he discovers who it was, he'll put the case into the file of unsolved murders. Another break-in by some sex-crazed man. [smiling]
Barbara Sabich: But all his life, he'll know that it was her. She remembers a set of glasses she bought for the woman some time before; a housewarming gift from her husband and his office. She buys another set. Her husband has a beer one night - doesn't even comment on the glass. Now she has his fingerprints. Then on a few mornings... she... [grimacing]
Barbara Sabich: ... saves the fluid that comes out when she removes her diaphragm. Puts it in a plastic bag. Puts the bag in the basement freezer, and... waits. [detached]
Barbara Sabich: She calls the woman and asks to see her; stops first at the U and logs into the computer. Now she has her alibi. She goes to the woman. The woman lets her in. When her head is turned, she removes the instrument from her bag and strikes. The destroyer is destroyed. She takes a cord out that she brought along, and ties her body in ways her husband described that perverts do. She feels power; control. A sense that she's guided by a fo

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Bateau: No matter how far a jackass travels, it won't come back a horse.

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Jim: Once you're accused of molesting a child, there simply is no return to innocence.

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[upon finding out Rusty will lead the investigation of his ex-lover's murder]
Barbara Sabich: There are one hundred and fifty lawyers down there. Couldn't they find someone who didn't **** her to handle the case?

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Beckett Warner: [Beckett is about to get her belly button pierced]You've done this before right?
Jen Dunham: Yeah, and I'm very hygienic, you know that.
Beckett Warner: OK, go for it.
Jen Dunham: Tobey is gonna love this.
Beckett Warner: It's... not for him.
Jen Dunham: ...Right. I have gloves, ice, extra alcohol, extremely clean needle. Just count to 15.

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