“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.”

“It would have been good to be the girl who helped solved the Katharina Linden case, instead of the girl whose grandmother had exploded at the family Advent dinner. I wasn't greedy; it needn't have been Katharina's actual corpse that we found; a severed head - a finger - even a piece of her clothing would have been enough; the little red bow from her hair, perhaps.”

“If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.”

“If she had only known, things might have been different between us, but I could never talk to her about it"[Jimmy about Molly]”

“i will always remember what my life might have been like if i had married a man who loved me with undying passion. perhaps i might not have been so vunerabel to the attension of a rake. ”

“If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.”