" Lucy felt sick, listening to him. It was a view of the world that anticipated evil from people because people always delivered. And the worst part was that she couldn't really argue.
"Like there's something in our DNA," she murmured, 'that makes us into monsters."
"Yeah. And we're all the same monsters," Angel said. "And it's just accidents that turn us one way or another, but once we turn bad, it takes a long time for us to try to be something different. "

― Paolo Bacigalupi , The Water Knife