Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.