“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”

“You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.”

“Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.”

“I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”

“Não imaginava o que seria preciso para me levar à loucura. Se calhar era como morrer. Depois de uma pessoas se passar para o outro lado não se sente a diferença. (Kay Scarpetta)”

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”

“He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.”