“If you'll never leave me, I'll never leave you.”

“Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her sacrificing her own life. She will come into hospital as trustingly as a lamb to the slaughter. She will welcome the implantation of a baby that will kill her. She'll lie there while her brain is destroyed for nine whole months, and no police will arrest you, no court will judge you, you'll get away scot free. At the end of nine months she'll be taken off life support and she'll be completely dead. And no one will be blamed.”

“Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.”

“What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.”

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

“And how do you really feel?Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him.”

“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”