“It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world.”

“The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.”

“It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.”

“I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.”

“She is the only one who knowsof the Coldness: a feeling that comes sometimes when I’mlying in bed, a black, empty feeling that knocks my breathaway and leaves me gasping as though I’ve just beenthrown in icy water. On nights like that—although it is wrongand illegal—I think of those strange and terrible words, Ilove you, and wonder what they would taste like in mymouth, try to recall their lilting rhythm on my mother’stongue.”

“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”