“Some people die accidentally. It's a fact.”

“I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.”

“I know some people with such bad tempers that, even if they accidentally walked into a tree branch, they will chop the whole tree down.”

“The morgue is a Victorian update of a system established by Alfred the Great. It's the place where certain deaths are resolved - those where the cause is unclear or is the result of some intended or accidental violence. The bodies are almost always victims in some way - of crime, suicides and car crashes, but also victims of loneliness. It's where you go if you die alone in your flat and your body lies undisturbed for days. It's where you go if no one knew you were dying and no GP attended your final hours. It's where you go if no loved one held your hand as you slipped away. In one way or another, then, all the people who pass through this room are the people who die screaming.”

“It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”

“The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens...If it can not live in the affections of its people, it must die.”