How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Seven.
Quote #7
SOMERSET: I remember getting up one morning and going to work. It was just another day like any other, except it was the first day after I knew about the pregnancy. And I felt this fear for the first time ever. I remember thinking, how can I bring a child into a world like this? How can a person grow up with all this around them? […] I'm positive that I made the right decision, but there's not a day that passes that I don't wish that I'd made a different choice.
Somerset almost had a baby, too, but he couldn't bear to do it. He knows he made the right decision, but he wishes he hadn't had to make that choice. If the world weren't such a cesspool, he wouldn't have had to.
Quote #8
SOMERSET: But you got to be a hero. You want to be a champion, well, let me tell you, people don't want a champion. They want to eat cheeseburgers, play the lotto, and watch television. [...] I just don't think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was a virtue.
Somerset has to be a little more antagonistic to Mills than he does to Tracy because Mills does believe the world can be saved. If Mills found out he was having a baby, he would be happy, and he would do everything he could to make the child's life a good one. But Somerset believes that would be impossible.
Quote #9
MILLS: You say, "The problem with people is that they don't, so I don't care about people." That makes no sense, you know why? […] I don't think you're quitting because you believe these things you say. You don't. I think you wanna believe 'em because you're quitting. […] You want me to agree with you, and you want me to say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. It's all f***ed up. It's a f***ing mess. We should all go live in a f***ing log cabin." But I won't. I won't say that. I don't agree with you. I do not. I can't.
This is Mills' takedown of Somerset's apathetic ideology. Unfortunately, it's exactly this attitude that makes him a target.