The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.

Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverware when he thought no one was looking

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

"Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.