“So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.”

“I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.”

“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating pun...”

“The reality and what it meant was slowly dawning: the betrayal, deception, and omission. Clandestine meetings. Evasion under questioning. In hindsight, Dana and Evan picked out the clues theyd miss...”

“I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”