'I won't die, eaten alive,' he said. He put a fresh clip in his gun. 'I'll do you first if you want, or you can do it yourself.'

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.'

I could almost smell her fear... Why did it bother me so much? Because she and I were the only women here, and we had to be better than the men. Braver, quicke…

I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.

'What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven …

Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D'you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men's …

In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the hangman.