Abuse the innocent and create a monster.

— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient color or an unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ("Girl in blue")

— Erik Pevernagie

AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And what we've always been been is…?”“Is living on borrowed time. Never caring about who’s paying for it, who’s starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs … planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo Hui the innocent dead. Boo, fucking Hui. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There’s no innocent dead.” After a while, “You’re not going to explain that, or…”“Course not, it’s a koan.

— Thomas Pynchon

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Are you planning to kiss me?' Sedan asked.' No.' Emory wrinkled a pimply nose.' Then why are you standing so close?' Sedan's tone was perfect innocence.

— Jonathan Renshaw

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

— Jasper Fforde

Carolyn – I need you to go back into America. We need an innocent heart. We will offer it to Nobununga when he arrives. Do you think you can handle that?”“An innocent heart? In America?” She hesitated.

— Scott Hawkins

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!

— Mehmet Murat ildan