“Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.”

“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”

“It would have been good to be the girl who helped solved the Katharina Linden case, instead of the girl whose grandmother had exploded at the family Advent dinner. I wasn't greedy; it needn't have been Katharina's actual corpse that we found; a severed head - a finger - even a piece of her clothing would have been enough; the little red bow from her hair, perhaps.”

“I'm so ready you could drive a truck straight up my ass and I would bend over and push back until it was in to the rear bumper.”

“he wasn't who I thought he'd be. Mum stroked my hair and said, "Sometimes they aren't. Sometimes they make you vomit."This did not comfort me.”

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair."No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”