“Fear is the gun for which your mind provides the bullets.”

“But I've got a gun," she said, twirling it on two fingers."A gun with bullets is worse than no gun at all.”

“You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.”

“A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life”

“Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”

“With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The two other bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.”