"She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. No..."
- Steven Galloway
"By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number o..."
"A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made."
"I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do."
"You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you."
"... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions."
"Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens th..."
"As she rounded a corner one of her favourite songs came on the radio, and sunlight filtered through the trees the way it does with lace curtains, reminding her of her grandmother, and tears began to s..."
"The choices she's made have left her without choice."
"It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as ..."