“Even in death, her mother was winning.”

“Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.”

“She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat...”

“I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”