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[He's been mulling this over since he met Hannibal, really.]
What was the first turning point in your life? Do you even remember who your real heroes were, when you were a kid? Or maybe some people do actually idolize their parents. For me, the only idols are the ones who can't become real, but it's been pointed out to me before that it's possible to worship someone in spite of their faults.
What was the first turning point in your life? Do you even remember who your real heroes were, when you were a kid? Or maybe some people do actually idolize their parents. For me, the only idols are the ones who can't become real, but it's been pointed out to me before that it's possible to worship someone in spite of their faults.
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[Her brow furrows, slightly.] I think certain events are meant to happen. But we choose what to do with them.
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A sort of selective destiny, then? [But that's not what he's really curious about.] How do you know if something is 'meant' to happen? An act of nature, something completely out of human hands?
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[A slight shrug.] The only thing we can do is make our own choices as best we can.
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What's the difference, d'you think, between the people who grow, and the ones who don't? It can't all go down to personality.
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[Philosophy he grasps easily, but basic relationship dynamics are a foreign concept. He looks like he would dissect it with a scalpel and tweezers if it was physical enough.]
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Yeah. Yeah, that's it exactly.
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Are you happy with who you've made yourself into?
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How about you?
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[He chuckles] Which probably doesn't inspire much confidence in what I'm doing with my inmate...
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What'd it teach you?
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That it's all right to just be Barbara, and that she's still there under the mask.
[A sudden smile, slight and sharp.]
That vengeance isn't always wrong.