Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.