“This is why the gypsies keep to themselves...no one else has the sense to age properly. You could drive a man to drink...I think I shall...”

“No one ever stepped forward to protect me, Inspector. I wonder why I should feel any driving sense of duty to protect anyone else. Let me tell you something about love. It can be very cruel and very greedy. I’ve had done with it. And that has given me a freedom that I cherish.”

“Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.”

“I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)”

“Everyone else is thinking about themselves as much as you are thinking about yourself and so therefore no one has any time to think about you.”

“When I was your age I met a man older than myself, quite a bit older. I fell in love with him. Really in love. I know people say it’s just puppy love at that age, but I was in love properly. It lasted for years. It was the most powerful feeling I can ever remember. At that age one has no defenses. It just overwhelmed me.”