- Paul Maguire: I killed a man, when I was seventeen. Caitlin's age. I got into a fight. Someone handed me a knife. Sometimes I dream about that night. In the dream I see myself, and I try to stop it, but I can't. Then I wake up, and I wonder what would have happened, if no one handed me that knife. What my life, what our lives, might have been.
- Vanessa: Paul.
- Paul Maguire: I'm sorry I let you down.
- Chernov: When I was 19 years old I was the Number 1 Light Heavyweight champion in the Soviet Olympics Boxing Team. Did you know this?
- Francis O'Connell: No, I don't like sports. Especially not Soviet sports.
- Paul Maguire: I want to find her. I want to find who took her, and...
- Danny Doherty: They're dead, Paulie. They just don't know it yet, right?
- Francis O'Connell: [in his wheelchair] That's the thing I miss the most, I guess. To be able to stand over somebody and stare him down.
- Kane: How someone like you got as far as you did in the organization, without knowing its ghosts.
- Paul Maguire: Lives are quiet. Like knives.
- Paul Maguire: I want that paper done before your two buddies come over. Otherwise you'll never finish.
- Caitlin Maguire: [responding in Latin] Alea iacta est.
- Paul Maguire: What?
- Caitlin Maguire: The die is cast. It's from Julius Caesar. You know, that thing I've been working on for the past six weeks?
- Paul Maguire: [musing] The die is cast...