Abeer

“He’s evil. You have no idea. You say Willy was burned?” “After he’d stabbed himself, yeah,” said Kett. “I’ve seen Chuckles do that to a man before,” said Luke. “Out at sea. Tied him to a boat and set fire to it, watched him burn to death, watched him scream until his throat…”
― Alex Smith, Truly Madly Deadly

“It was almost seven, and he thought about Billie and the kids, about his own family waiting for him to come home. How many times had his late nights led to an argument with his wife? How many times had she told him, in the heat of the moment, that there wasn’t room for her and the girls in his head alongside the madness of the job?”
― Alex Smith, Truly Madly Deadly

“Right, back to HQ,” said Porter. “I have a meeting with God.” “God?” said Kett. “Yeah, God. Clare’s nickname for himself, remember? Although I think Satan’s probably a better one.”
― Alex Smith, Truly Madly Deadly

“God, you’ve never known love like this, you’ve never felt it. It’s… There are no words. But it makes you see the lies in other people, makes you see how weak they are, how wrong they are to call what they have love.”
― Alex Smith, Truly Madly Deadly