“...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind”

“Again from a distance, Sukie was once again struck by her mother's chic and how different things can seem from far away, how there's more than one truth, the faraway truth and the truth close up.”

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.”

“It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.”

“Finding the right one is never easy. Especially, when the wrong one looks so right.”

“24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple!”