“Maar als het geschrevene soms al moeilijk te vergeten is, hoeveel moeilijker valt het dan niet datgene te vergeten waarvan men hoopte dat het ooit geschreven zou worden? Maar dat voor altijd ongeschreven is gebleven?”
“Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.”
“Telkens als hij de nieuwe, slotloze deur van De Becker passeerde, stak hij haar zonder te kloppen open, brulde keihard 'Onnozelaar!' en smakte haar even keihard weer dicht”
“Claude could simply not imagine the couples he met at parties or passed on the street ever being locked in carnal embrace.”
“Dear Mother,I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...”
“Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly appointed Superintendent Dickinson was turning up to this late hour crime scene, he may also ordinarily question why his superior officer was dressed as Julius Caesar, in full tunic and green leafy wreath, yet ever since the new and youngest-ever-appointed superintendent had arrived at the Met it had been all too clear he was an officer who didn’t quite do things by the eBook.”