“As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.”

“Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.”

“So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwents scale ran all the way from wouldnt piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewher...”

“Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. Its hard to say you need to be forgiven.”

“Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.”

“Hed have denied it to his dying breath but Derwent wasnt as tough as he pretended to be. For the very small number of people he cared about, Derwent would give his all. It made him vulnerable, and ...”

“She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.”

“They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-w...”

“This is the place where death rejoices to help those who live. It's written somewhere in every morgue I've ever been in. Nice way of looking at it, isn't it?”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”