“I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.”

“You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.”

“Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.”

“It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.”

“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”

“I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.”

“Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -”