“Hemlock in the cocktails, wasn't it? Something of that kind.”

“It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.”

“Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.”

“Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.”

“Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.”

“Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.”

“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”