How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"That fat man was coming over and you told me to stay against the wall, cover my face with my hand. 'For your own good,' you said. "'There's no point in his being able to identify you.'"
"There wasn't."
""'For your own good.' That's not the reasoning of a pathological killer. I think I held on to that—for my own sanity, maybe—that and the look in your eyes." (9.153-156)
Marie's judgment of Bourne is based both on his act of kindness (trying to protect her from being identified) and on the look in his eyes (though those eyes are quite elusive—see our "Eyes" entry in the "Symbols" section.) We're supposed to see Bourne as a just man both because of what he does and because there's this ineffable decency in everything he does (and that, perhaps, makes him okay even when he does horrible things like kidnap innocent people). At least that's how Marie sees it.
Quote #5
"Four nights ago a man who could have kept running came back for me and offered to die in my place. I believe in that man. More than he does, I think. That's really what I have to offer. (10.156)
Marie's belief in Bourne is based in large part on a kind of gratitude: he rescued her when she was being raped. For her, the fact that he administered justice in that instance (killing her rapist) shows that he is just. That's not entirely convincing, since, logically, Bourne kidnapped Marie in the first place, leading to the situation in which she was raped. Isn't refusing to do evil in the first place ultimately more just than trying to rectify the evil you've already done?
Quote #6
"When you do the kind of work I do decency becomes very important. It's not the meek who are inheriting the earth, Jason, it's the corrupters. And I have an idea that the distance between corruption and killing is a very short step." (13.168)
Marie draws a firm line between decency and corruption, and she claims that it's very easy for corruption to lead to killing. She wants justice for the meek. Do you think the novel as a whole contradicts her wishes? After all, the "decent" guy here turns out to be Bourne, who is not at all meek, and who kills just about every other person he encounters.