“Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.”

“It dawned on me then that I didn’t understand anything half as wellas I thought I did.”

“It wasn’t bravery that ushered me into that cave, it was a mixture ofstupidity, guilt and the brashness of youth. A deadlier combination therenever was.”

“I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.”

“I like plain old you.”

“In the rational light of day, he could tell himself that it was better this way, for both of them. The past was the past, nothing but memories buried, and the pain of losing something precious was but brief. Most of the time he could make himself believe it, but sometimes in the night, with no company but his own echoing thoughts, the past would sneak up on him.”

“No matter how old you get, no matter how far you’ve strayed, a mother can always see right through you.”