“Cam knew that if she succeeded, it was going to destroy her, but she could worry about that later. All she had to do at the moment was cut her own heart out without letting the wound show too much;...”

“That was her last rational thought. She gave herself up to Cam completely, feasting on her. She couldn't get enough of her.”

“Back to reality, after a brief but pleasant dream.”

“What really mattered, Alex supposed, was not how the world saw you, but how you saw yourself, and whether you and the people around you treated one another with respect.”

“Cam was staring into her coffee, cradling the mug in both hands. A working woman's hands, sporting a few scrapes and scratches. Strong, capable hands.”

“I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.”

“At first we had so much to catch up on we were talking a hundred words a second, barely even listening to the ends of one another's sentences before moving onto the next. And there was laughing. Lo...”

“I felt his other hand sear hot against my cheek. He bent his head, and in a voice that Jack couldnt hear, said, When you came down the stairs, and fell into me, that was the moment. Then his lips p...”

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”

“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”

“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”