Quotes from Kevin Wignall

Finn had seen in the people he'd once contended with, and sometimes even among his own colleagues - a policy in which killing was the first option rather than the last, because lives counted for nothing against the security of guaranteed silence.

I'm also much less certain than Audrey and Ben were in their final arguments, but that's because I'm searching for the truth whereas they're just trying to win a case.

he had the wrong constitution for disappearing. Because that was what disappearing would mean, the life of a permanent tourist, soulless, drowning in small talk.

She had just killed a man and Dan wanted to kiss her, and in those two facts, ironically, lay the difference that would probably always remain between them.

He couldn't die by degrees in a life like that, didn't think he could do it even for a few days, a revulsion that probably sprang from the same part of his character as the violence he'd come to live by.

he had done the right thing without thinking, and had lost everything in the process.

And if it went, if the murderer was caught, they would have to face all over again the stark early morning truth that it solved nothing, that Sabine was still lost for ever.

Life is like comedy—it's all in the timing." She

Frank shrugged and looked scatter-brained, a goofy act he'd perfected over the years, one that belied the dangerous truth

It didn't matter, though, how weakly sentimental the catalyst had been, only that he'd been receptive to it.

there was no truth that couldn't be told.

He'd always found it vaguely depressing, and yet it shouldn't have mattered that the world was full of people he'd never know when he'd removed himself so completely from the world anyway. This

and then the train started to ease along the platform

life was full of poignant truths and wrongs that could never be righted. There was nothing to be gained from wallowing in them.

When had doing the right thing stopped being the automatic option and become something that had to be worked at instead?

you shouldn't be getting out of bed every day because you have to go to work, you should be working at something that makes you want to get out of bed.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

be scared. She backed off, though, the thoughts too precipitous.

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man.

The alpha team." Incredulous

For nearly twenty years, he'd produced these iconic photographs of the world's war zones and he suspected he was alone in seeing what he'd done.  Far from exposing the truth, he'd reduced human tragedy to the level of pornography, or worse, for pornographers were at least honest.

drawers, searching through them before pulling

When his phone rang, he checked his watch, surprised to see that forty minutes had elapsed, time in which he'd thought of almost nothing. It was Hugo Beck, probably pretending to be interested in how things were going, but actually calling with a new job. Dan didn't mind that, and would rather keep busy than not.

It already felt a lifetime ago, prison years being like dog years.