Earlier this year, Netflix dropped Adolescence, a British psychological crime drama about a 13-year-old boy who’s accused of murdering his female classmate. The show delves into the mindset of the accused, his classmates, and even his family, daring us to ask: What makes a murderer? And what could prompt someone so young to do the unspeakable?

While Adolescence is a treasure trove about the psychological processes surrounding such a tragedy, these 15 quotes stood out as some of the absolute best of the show:

1.

“It’s crazy, what your brain tells you to do when you’re a kid.” — Eddie Miller (Stephen Graham)

2.

Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper): “Are you all right? You look a bit red. Did I scare you when I shouted?

Briony Ariston (Erin Doherty): She wrote this on your Instagram—

Jamie: I mean, I’m only 13. I don’t think I look that scary.

3.

“Do you know what I don’t like about all of this? Right, the perpetrator always gets the front line. ‘A man raped a woman.’ We’ve followed Jamie’s brain around this entire case. Right? Katie isn’t important. Jamie is. Everyone will remember Jamie. No one will remember her.” — Misha Frank (Faye Marsay)

4.

“I took him to footy, didn’t I? Because I thought it would toughen him up. No, but he was crap. So they just stuck him in goal. And I just stood there at the side of the pitch while all the other dads were laughing at him. And I could feel him looking at me, but I couldn’t look at him, Mand. I couldn’t look at my own boy.” — Eddie Miller (Stephen Graham)

5.

“If my dad made me, how did I make that?” — Eddie Miller (Stephen Graham)

6.

“All kids really need is one thing that makes them feel okay about themselves.” — Misha Frank (Faye Marsay)

7.

Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper): Everyone was calling her a sl*g, you know, or flat, so I thought if she was that weak, she might like me. It’s clever, don’t you think?

Briony Ariston (Erin Doherty): To ask her out when everyone else didn’t like her?

8.

“What you think is more important than what’s true.” — Briony Ariston (Erin Doherty)

9.

“That night, I didn’t touch her. I could’ve touched her, but I didn’t. I just… I had a knife. She was scared. But I didn’t do that.I could have touched any part of her body. I really wanted to, but I didn’t. I just… Most boys would have touched her. So that makes me better.” — Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper)

10.

Eddie Miller (Stephen Graham): He was in his room, wasn’t he? We thought he was safe, didn’t we? Didn’t we think he was safe? What harm could he do in there? We thought we were doing the right thing.

Manda Miller (Christine Tremarco): I was a good mom. I am a good mom. You’re a good dad, a great dad. But we made him.

11.

“If we move, it’ll be better for a bit, but then someone’s just going to find out something. And then that something’s going to be everything, and then it’ll be even worse. You know, it’s Jamie. Jamie’s ours, isn’t he?” — Lisa Miller (Amélie Pease)

12.

Briony Ariston (Erin Doherty): Do you understand what death is?

Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper):  Yeah.

Briony: Do you understand that Katie’s gone and she can’t come back?

Jamie: I didn’t do it.

Briony: That whatever claims you make as to her character—

Jamie: I didn’t mean she was a b*tch.

Briony: —whatever claims you make about her, she’s gone. That whoever did kill her, they extinguished the possibility of her future life.

13.

Eddie Miller (Stephen Graham): Could I have protected him?

Manda Miller (Christine Tremarco): No.

Eddie: Should have we done more, though?

Manda: I think it would be good if we accepted maybe we should’ve done. I think it would be okay for us to think that.

14.

Eddie Miller (Stephen Graham): How did we make her?

Manda Miller (Christine Tremarco): The same way we made him.

15.

“I’m sorry, son. I should have done better.” — Eddie Miller (Stephen Graham)