"Defending Jacob" Quotes
"Defending Jacob" is a legal thriller about a father who must grapple with the possibility that his teenage son is a murderer.
fiction | 421 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
In the end, we are moved to pity not by the crimes of others, but by our own misfortunes.
We are never entirely sure about the things we are most certain of.
Our children are us in miniature; we are them magnified.
Families are like little nations. You fight for them, you defend them, you die for them.
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees nothing.
You can’t change the facts. You can only overcome them.
Innocence is not merely a legal presumption. It is a state of grace.
Some things you can never leave behind. They don’t belong to the past. They belong to you.
There is something worse than dying, and that is dying ashamed.
Guilt is a ghost that takes up residence within the soul.
