“There is honor between bitches”

“She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.”

“No man easily admits that he is afraid.”

“With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.”

“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.”

“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”