“Youre trying to look for rock bottom, to that part of yourself that could no longer feel pain. But there is no such thing as rock bottom. As long as there is left to destroy in you, youd do it. We ...”

“At night, with only the bedside lamp on, I would pretend to sleep and listened to Dads muffled crying in the semi-darkness, wishing that I could cry like him, that I could bring Stevan back from th...”

“You must think I dont know whats keeping you up at night. You must think were so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isnt that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anything, ...”

“Do you know that you being here with that gun in your hand is more wondrous than the parting of the Red Sea? For someone like God, it would be easy to command the skies, the waters, the rocks. But ...”

“You’re trying to look for rock bottom, to that part of yourself that could no longer feel pain. But there is no such thing as rock bottom. As long as there is left to destroy in you, you’d do it. W...”

“You must think I don’t know what’s keeping you up at night. You must think we’re so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isn’t that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anythi...”

“As truth be told, homecoming never gets old.”

“How long since he'd been back home? Ten years? Fifteen? He'd stopped keeping track around the time he'd finally stopped looking over his shoulder. At the time, leaving had seemed too good to be tru...”

“You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.”

“The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.”

“The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”

“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”