“real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.”

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”

“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...”

“In Morocco, he was back in his element, a shark moving through deep and dangerous waters. But for thousands of years sharks have been bred to survive dark and dangerous waters. So too, Leonid Arkadin.”

“Spending so much time alone had turned Chloe's imagination into a deep dark forest. It was a magical place to escape to, and so much more thrilling than real life.”

“The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.”