“And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.”

“I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war.”

“Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.”

“Leon regarded Archie with triumph, smiling almost grotesquely, a caricature of a smile really. Leon was not accustomed to smiling. But something else was behind the smile, behind those icy cold eyes, a smile that said he had not believed a word of what Archie had said. Which did not bother Archie in the least. The important thing was that Leon had chosen to pretend he had believed.”

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”

“I aimed at his back and pulled the trigger five times and all hell broke loose in my mind.”

“He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled…”

“Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.”

“"I will just wag my finger at him", he said, putting it on the trigger.”