“They seemed to be together as one, somewhere else in a place that was lighter than air.”

“But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.”

“Other girls play with soft toys, I said, and you play with knives”

“She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.”

“My arms would be wrapped around him like angels wings.”

“Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.”

“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.”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and c...”

“We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would have Esther...”

“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...”