Born, Darkly Quotes
"Objection overruled. Dr. Noble was asked to provide testimony of her professional opinion of the defendant’s state of mind."
"Charles was unable to distinguish reality from his delusion. His intent was to destroy a clone of his wife. Not his wife."
"He believed that by torching the clone, he’d destroy the government's ability to control him."
"A crime of passion suggests an act of immediacy. Charles Reker, after careful analysis, proved to be aware of his wife’s infidelity for over a year."
"I believe he displays classic signs of paranoid schizophrenia. In particular, he suffers from a specific delusion: Capgras delusion."
"I was able to follow, thank you. What you see on the screen does resemble overkill, that which can be construed as a crime of passion."
"I’d love to tangle her up in my web and feast."
"They are governed by their Id—and the Id is the ultimate monster."
"I did my homework before our first meeting. Labeling me a deviant is nothing new."
"When encountering the gravity of a black hole, a force so powerful not even light can escape its vortex, you don’t stand a chance against the darkness."
"Whatever light I’ve been able to muster in this dark world, he will surely devour if I continue on this collision course."
"The mention of his dwindling time carves his features in hard angles."
"Memories are deceptive. The way the mind works when recalling the past distorts our reality."
"Our minds shape and mold a memory every time we look at it, changing subtle details, altering facts."
"Like an old cassette tape being recorded over and over, my memories now play back a garbled, distorted song."
"The freedom to do and say what one wants has always disturbed others."
"Our minds are so powerful, constructing connections and feelings to a single occurrence."
"I’m not afraid to die, but I am terrified of living a life that isn’t mine."
"The world is overpopulated and full of filth that needs picking off."
"I was of the mindset that once they killed me, my life, my purpose…it would be done. Finished. There’s nothing to fear in that."
"You can never replicate your first. Like two lovers in the throes of passion, clumsily feeling their way through that awkward first encounter, it’s still just as erotic, just as carnal."
"I can feel it in you now. That dark obsession that twists you, makes you mine."
"I’ve been able to channel that need through my patients, but it’s getting harder, isn’t it?"
"We were designed for each other. Don’t you feel the pain when we’re apart? Don’t you want it to stop?"
"The walls of the white room waver in the corner of my vision. Red seams the edges."
"I’ve just sentenced Grayson to death. My secret will die with him."
"Solitude reveals who we are. Isolation is not loneliness; it's the absence of noise and distraction. It forces you to acknowledge your worth."
"You can't control your compulsions. That's why I'm here, isn't it? Because you obsessed over me—over some connection, our ‘inevitability’. And then you fantasized about your escape until you made it happen."
"I’ve always savored my alone time, never fearing being truly isolated—but maybe I was too harsh on my patient."
"Love—if that’s what it truly is—decided we were a match, and she’s offered proof. Finally."
"Truthfully, I believed she was an empty, worthless woman who might as well be knitting doilies in front of daytime TV."
"Denial is a strenuous mental exercise. You have to be completely, utterly delusional not to bend when faced with veracity in its barest form."
"I’ve watched hours of torture, the elaborate traps always having a gruesome twist."
"Hope is what gives a person the strength to fight, to persevere, to overcome. To live. Take their hope away, and you're left with a perfectly pliable, shell of a person to mold and shape."
"You chose me because I was your proof that it’s not [possible to rehabilitate]."
"The truth of who you are and what you’ve done, and this all ends."
"I don’t want to remember. If he tortured her in front of me, if he killed her…my mind has protected me, sheltering me from an evil no child could process."
"We weren’t born the day we took our first breath. We were born the moment we stole it."
"We’re monsters. And our love is this monstrous thing that will devour us."
"You’ve trained yourself to feel emotions that don’t exist. Your mind has detached from certain areas of reality to shelter you from what you truly are."
"In my vanity, I concealed the ugly and vile. And yet he saw."
"I wasn’t born this way. I was stolen, groomed, and born to another realm the average person only glimpses in nightmares."
"Shame is the conception of most sins against ourselves."
"I’m not ashamed for what I’ve done, I’m ashamed that I hid it from myself."
"I was a performer once. I can be again. At least now, I know the difference."
"Though this announcement weighs heavily on my heart, I cannot bear its burden for one more day."
"No, ours is not a love story. Ours comes with a warning."