“That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. ”

“I´ll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that´s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.”

“Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.”

“You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.”

“You have a great name. He must kill your name before he can kill you.”

“Cut off the dead wood before it kills the tree.' If you have friends who backstab you, get rid of them now before they hurt you.”