When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.