“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 ...”

“I was a king for a while. I wasn't a very good one. I wanted all kinds of things. I wanted, well, you know. Power. Glory. To be feared. All that good stuff. But you know what? When the gaiaphage di...”

“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“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.”

“And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.”

“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”

“I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happeninglike the old couple in Titanic.”