“ ... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest ho… Paul Hoffman
“ It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul. Paul Hoffman
“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Paul Hoffman
“ ...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone. Paul Hoffman
“ - Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. Paul Hoffman
“ Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and s… Paul Hoffman
“ Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are. Paul Hoffman
“ ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him becau… Paul Hoffman
“ ...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had… Paul Hoffman
