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"She was in her own world, bent over the table, examining her paints with a small smile." - page 181

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"I tried to make sense of what I had just read." - page 227

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"I intended to show her that Gabriel didn't love her, that her life was a lie, their marriage a sham." - page 314

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"Silencing Alicia wasn't so easy. Injecting her with morphine was the hardest thing I've ever done. That she didn't die, but is asleep, is better-this way, I can still visit her every day and sit by her bed and hold her hand. I haven't lost her." - page 315

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"Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way." - page 320

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"I opened the window and reached out my hand. I caught a snowflake. I watched it disappear, vanish from my fingertip. I smiled. And I went to catch another one." - page 323

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"Gabriel was the second man to condemn Alicia to death; bringing up this original trauma was more than she could bear-which is why she picked up the gun and visited her long-awaited revenge not upon her father, but upon her husband." - page 315

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"I wanted to help her through the aftermath of the murder, help her understand what had happened, work through it-and be free. If you were cynical, you might say I revisited the scene of the crime, so to speak, to cover my tracks." - page 314

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"That's the truth. I didn't kill Gabriel. He killed me. All I did was pull the trigger." - page 312

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"Despite my best homicidal fantasies, I wasn't a murderer. I couldn't kill him. I'd have to think of something cleverer than that." - page 289

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"I felt glad to be out of London- the sky was less oppressive, and I could breathe more easily." - page 131

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"I didn't hear the footsteps behind me until too late. There was a bang -a heavy thud- and a stab of pain at the back of my head. Everything went black." - page 132

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"She was fragile in my arms, her bones so delicate; I breathed in her faint flowery scent and the wool of her cardigan and again I felt like crying." - page 103

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"'It's a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.'" - page 102

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"'You asked Alicia if her husband deserved to be killed?'" - page 111

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"There's not much light- it's cold and dark, which suits my mood." - page 122

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"It's strange- it's older than I ever say myself being; my imagination only ever extended this far. I've outlived my mother now- it's an unsteady feeling, being older than she was." - page 125

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"I could taste his blood on my tongue, so I turned on the tap and rinsed my mouth until it was gone." - page 124

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"No one is born evil." - page 132

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"It was cold in my room, and my fingers were numb and clumsy as I tore open the packets. It took an immense effort to swallow all the tablets. But I forced them all down, pill after bitter pill. Then I crawled onto my uncomfortable narrow bed. I shut my eyes and waited for death." - page 16

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"She was bound to be unfaithful, I thought, this had to happen, it was inevitable- I was never good enough for her, I was useless, ugly, worthless, nothing- she was bound to tire of me eventually- I didn't deserve her, I didn't deserve anything- it went on and on, one horrible thought after another punching me." - page 96

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"It's just an excuse- the truth is I'm scared to have kids. I am not to be trusted with them. Not with my mother's blood running through my veins." - page 120

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"When I'm around other people, even if it's only the bored waitress in here, I feel connected to the world somehow, like a human being." - page 121

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"Perhaps I was crazy, after all." - page 97

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"I had to get out. I couldn't breathe in here, in this flat with these stinking lilies. I needed some air. I needed to breathe." -page 96

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"She didn't cry once throughout the trial- a fact made much of in the press- her face remaining unmoved, cold. Frozen." - page 11

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"It was the only explanation that made any sense: Why else tie up the man you loved to a chair and shoot him in the face at close range? And then express no remorse, give no explanation, not even speak? She must be mad. She had to be." - page 11

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"What the hell was I doing clambering upon this wreck, lashing myself to the mast, preparing to drown? The answer was sitting in front of me. As Diomedes put it, Alicia was a silent siren, luring me to my doom." - page 92

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"After all, I wasn't just responsible for myself. What about the patients in my care? Certain people depended on me. I couldn't let them down." - page 107

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"But that's what Alicia did for you. Her silence was like a mirror- reflecting yourself back at you. And it was often an ugly sight." - page 94

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"Of course, I said none of this to her. Instead I did what Ruth would have done. And we simply sat in silence." - page 36

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"A little bit of sugar is a great mood enhancer." - page 69

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"I find music to be a most effective therapeutic tool." - page 30

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"I mean, of course I wanted to help people. But that was a secondary aim- particularly at the time I started training. The real motivation was purely selfish. I was on a quest to help myself." - page 13

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"She used to say we are made up of different parts, some good, some bad, and that a healthy mind can tolerate this ambivalence and juggle both good and bad at the same time." - page 35