Border Crossing Quotes

[Tom had] learnt to value detachment: the clinician's splinter of ice in the heart.

Do you think it's different, killing a rabbit and killing a person?

...the horror of the images impossible to connect with the child he'd just left.

The man needs to learn how to controll his anger, he is crossing a border here, and he has no right

Do you think confession's the only route to redemption?

The fired burnt furiously, piled high with logs. Danny had dragged the log basket onto the hearth rug and was kneeling beside it, a log in each hand, watching the fire burn.

Danny was a bottomless pit. He wanted other people to fill him, only in the process the other people ended up drained.

The forensic evidence for Danny's guilt was overwhelming, but he was a good liar.

[Lauren's] eyes were glazed, inward-looking. Like labour, Tom thought, the irony as sour as the mud on his tongue.

You wring a chicken's neck, you don't expect to find it running round the yard next morning, do you?

I thought he was one of the most dangerous boys we've ever had through the school.

But sir, certainly, there isn't any proof as to my guilt...

[Tom] was less than halfway across the causeway when the mist thickened.

A second later, the water enclosed him in a coffin of ice.

It was extraordinarily distracting: this feeling of a pivotal moment in his own life being played out in front of an uninvited audience.