Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

the possession of power brings on madness.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.