“Some promises aren’t worth keeping.”

“If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?”

“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”

“We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.”

“It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.”

“Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.”

“She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.”