"It's not necessary to know too much about the man who was wounded so badly because he was wounded badly enough to alter his course of life radically, somewhat in the manner than conversion, the sacrament of baptism, not the less an upheaval for being commonplace, alters the Christian, satori the Buddhist." Revenge, Chap. 1, p. 14

"Life was better if you were no one's victim." Revenge, Chap. 2, p. 41

"He reflected on the beauty of threat: the fatal equipment of the mamba owning a beauty shared by the grizzly, rattler, hammerhead shark, perhaps even the black Phantom he flew - an utterly malign black death instrument." Revenge, Chap. 3, pp. 72-73

"The die was cast so deeply in blood that none of them would be forgiven by their memories. Meanwhile he would let his former friend eat his heart away in the fruitless search for his beloved." Revenge, Chap. 3, p. 77

"Now...