i'm not scared quotes
"It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters"
Michele (p49 - Imagination)
"The world's a place full of holes with dead people in them"
Filipo (p109-110 - Morality, imagination)
"The lord of the worms comes and goes"
Filipo (p144 - fear, morality, imagination)
"The angel always tells the truth. You're the guardian angel"
Filipo (p75 - Trust)
"Even if you haven't got any children I'm sure you can imagine what it means when they're taken away from you"
Filipo's mother (p86 - morality)
"I had been scared then, but that was nothing to what I felt now. Felice would tell Mama everything and she would tell Papa"
Michele (P149 - fear)
"I liked Salvatore. I liked the way he always kept calm and didn't fly off the handle every five minutes"
Michele (p103 - Trust / betrayal, friendship)
"Your mother says she loves you. And she misses you. She said so yesterday on television."
Michele (p108 - Trust, friendship)
"When I was small I always dreamed about monsters...I found a place where I could lock those..creatures up and sleep serenely"
Michele (p113-114 - Fear / imagination)
"Why didn't I get anything? Because my father didn't care about me, he said he loved me but he didn't
Michele (p132 - father/son relationship, trust)
"I had wasted my secret"
Michele (p135 - trust / betrayal)
"I was worse than Judas who had bartered Jesus for thirty pieces of silver"
Michele (p135 - trust / betrayal, friendship)
"Salvatore Scardaccione had sold me for a driving lesson"
Michele (p147 - trust / betrayal, friendship)
"He was my best friend"
Michele (p148 - betrayal, friendship)
"What was I going to do now? I promised him I would go and see him again, but I couldn't, I had sworn to Papa that I wouldn't go"
Michele (p161 - trust / betrayal, father-son relationship)
"The closer I got to the hill the worse I felt"
Michele (p177 - trust, fear)
"What was I doing? Every turn of the pedal was a piece of oath crumbling away"
Michele (p178 - trust/betrayal)
"Filipo, it's Michele. I've come back. I swore to you that I would"
Michele (p179 - trust, friendship)
"They had taken him away. Without telling me anything. Without letting me know"
Michele (p182 - trust / betrayal)
"The barber was flat against the door as if he had seen the devil"
Michele (p193 - fear)
"I must be brave"
Michele (p197 - fear/courage)
"Lazarus wasn't scared of anything"
Michele (p198 - fear/courage, imagination)
"I've come, I kept my promise"
Michele (p209 - trust, friendship)
"You're not dead yet, do you understand?"
Michele (p211 - trust, fear/courage)
"I saw Papa. In one hand he had a pistol, in the other a torch. He had lost"
Michele (p214 - betrayal, fear)
"No, you're not scared..there's nothing to be scared of"
Michele (p214 - trust, fear/courage, friendship)
"The lords of the hill. Papa, they're coming. Run for it"
Michele (p215 - trust/betrayal, fear)
"I didn't want to die, Though I'd have liked to go to my own funeral"
Michele (p48 - Fear)
"The hill was calling me"
Michele (p60 - Imagination)
"The old man was like an emperor"
Michele (p80 - Fear, imagination)
"Nobody had ever talked to Papa like that. Papa was the boss of Acqua Traverse"
Michele (p84 - Father-son relationship)
All the others were gypsies. Gypsies disguised as people"
Michele (p87 - Imagination)
"Papa was the bogeyman. By day he was good, but at night he was bad"
Michele (p87 - Trust/betrayal)
While I told the story, I could see Papa cutting off Filipo's ears and putting them in his pocket"
Michele (p89 - Fear / betrayal)
"I became scared of vipers, just like that, quite suddenly"
Michele (p99 - Fear / imagination)
"If you go back there I'll give you the thrashing of your life"
Pino (p156 - trust / betrayal, father-son relationship)
"Why do you never do as you're told? I can't stand it any more. We've got so many problems and now you start. You don't understand."
Pino (p94 - Trust/betrayal, father-son relationship)
"Two, I had. One's alive, but he might as well be dead. The other's dead but he might as well be alive"
Sergio (p116 - Fear / morality)