“The person he'd hurt the most though, ultimately, was himself.It was his dreams that had come to nothing. His future that had folded before his eyes, like a house of cards.”

“She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride”

“I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor”

“No one can be cured of being who they are.”

“War made the state, and the state made war”

“You can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl.”

“But never in his saddest dreams had he thought he'd spend his last years dusting this enormous old house for no one at all.”