“You never did master a leer."- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree”

“Katharine: I can't keep up with you!Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself.- Death on the Family Tree”

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations”

“There are people whose death leaves you with an ache of grief. A slight sting. And then there are people whose death stops time. Deaths that leave the sky murky all day long because even the sun is grieving. Deaths that shut down your muscles and stop the music. Deaths that turn every corner of your mind a shade of grey before they light up in a flame and shrivel away.”

“Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?”

“One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.”

“I did not have any magnificent jewels to give you, but I hoped you would understand that I would give you the world if I could.”