“When luck ain't with you, it's against you.”

“Then at the top of the hill, the road forks.Which just figures."You gotta be kidding." I say.One part of the road goes left, the other goes right.(Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)”

“But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ”

“Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?”

“Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.”

“Schooling ain't life.""Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.”

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”