How I Live Now Innocence Quotes

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Quote #4

Piper, because she was so good and pure that when she was confused about what was going on she just stood and stared at your face until you either told her the truth or ran away and hid. (1.10.7)

Piper's got mad skills at getting confessions from people—we should all take a page from her book. Of course, we could never match Piper's innocent intentions. This girl is innocence and purity and sweetness and all things good personified, and we'd bet she's pretty much impossible not to fall in love with and want to take care of.

Quote #5

If anyone feels like arresting me for corrupting an innocent kid then all I can say is that Edmond was not corruptible. (1.10.13)

Defensive much? It's funny, right up until this point, Daisy was all about how sweet and innocent her cousins were, but once you start boinking one of them it's hard to keep talking about how innocent he is without coming off like a terrible force of corruption.

Quote #6

The birds were happier with the invasion than they'd been in years since no one was driving cars or farming or doing anything much to disturb them, so all they did was lay eggs and sing and try to avoid getting eaten by foxes. (1.11.9)

There's a lot of talk about innocent animals in How I Live Now, and here we see that early in the war, things are fine and dandy for the sweet animals, who are mostly left to their own devices. Doing nothing but singing and avoiding getting eaten? Downright pastoral.