“There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.”

“There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us. Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less.Baboons.Baboons. They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him.”

“There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.”

“When everything else is boring, there's something to be said for risk.”

“there's always a book in the assassin's bag.”

“There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.”