“In my mind, I was one of the London’s young, thrusting urbanities. In my mind, I was always on the go, always had somewhere to be, always in the thick of things.”
“Here is your pearl. I found it in the path. Can you hear me now? Here is your pearl. Can you understand? You have killed a man. We must go away. They will come for us, can you understand? We must be gone before daylight comes.”
“It’s a fact of life on the run that you often love more people than you trust. For people in the safe world, of course, exactly the opposite is true.”