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

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

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

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

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

“She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.”

“Let us imagine the Viceroy’s Council made in this manner. And let us suppose, first of all, that we have universal suffrage, as in America, and that all have votes. And let us also suppose that all Mohammadan electors vote for a Mohammadan and all Hindu electors for a Hindu member, and now count how many votes the Mohammadan member will have and how many the Hindu. It is certain that the Hindu member will have four times as many, because their population is four times numerous . . . and now how can the Mohammadan guard his interests?”

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

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”

“Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.”