“That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort.”

“That's how we're connected: through the hurt we inflict on one another.”

“We thought we knew everything about him. But that's not how life is. When all's said and done, we can never truly know one another.”

“There shall come a day when all the women in the world will lie in the gutter screaming for cock,' he intoned. 'But not an inch shall they be given!''Am I to understand,' Knud Erik asked, 'that nobody wanted to screw you?”

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”

“Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?”

“Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.”