“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”

“As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.”

“You could hold her tight with all your might but she'd slip through your arms like the wind and be back in flight back into the night where you might never see her again.”

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”

“Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.”

“There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.”

“The respect that true friends have towards you will never allow them to be behind or in front of your life path, but always by your side.”

“You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.”

“Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back”

“You told me what the first rule of wisdom is," I said. "What is the second rule?"
"That can be answered," he said. "There are five in all. Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first…If you follow them," said the Sergeant, "you will save your soul and you will never get a fall on a slippy road.”