She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.

We are all descended from monsters.

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.