“Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.”

“But I'm not saying anything because I've just noticed the brick. Or rather the lack of brick. Of course, some of the dark shapes on the floor probably are bricks, but they don't look like my brick. The one that can be up against the door. But isn't.”

“Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.”

“You know, Elise, sometimes our lives have moments of great disappointment. It's difficult at the time, but we have to move beyond.”

“There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep...”

“Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.”

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”