“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”

“The perfect killer has no identity.”

“The perfect killer has no conscience.”

“The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”

“I’m not dreaming this, am I?” he asked.Dehvi lifted an eyebrow. “There’s only one way to know for sure,” he said.What’s that?”Go piss in the woods. If you feel wet and warm afterward, wake up.”

“Do you know what punishments I’ve endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men’s most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn’t tolerate my existence.”