- Alex Cross: You do what you are Jezzie.
- Jezzie Flannigan: You mean you are what you do.
- Alex Cross: No, I mean, you do what you are. You're born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you're good at, you don't take for granted. You don't betray it.
- Jezzie Flannigan: What if you do, betray your gift?
- Alex Cross: Then you betray yourself. That's a sad thing.
- [Alex and Jezzie are examining Soneji's handiwork]
- Alex Cross: Wow. Imagine the patience... the dedication...
- Jezzie Flannigan: You sound like an admirer.
- Alex Cross: Well, he's like a spider. I happen to like spiders.
- [last lines]
- Megan Rose: Who are you?
- Alex Cross: I'm a policeman. My name is Alex Cross. I'm a friend of your parents.
- Megan Rose: Can you take me to them?
- Alex Cross: Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Could you...
- [she helps him up]
- Alex Cross: Ah, thanks.
- Gary Soneji: [about Megan] I envy her. What would life have been like with parents like that?
- Alex Cross: Come on, Gary. Blaming your parents for what you are?
- Gary Soneji: I'm not blaming them, Alex. They've been punished already. I burned down the house while they slept.
- Gary Soneji: They say that when I die, the case will die. They say it will be like a book I close. But the book, it will never close...
- Jezzie Flannigan: Dr. Cross, Agent Ben Devine. Agent Devine is security systems supervisor.
- Ben Devine: Well, for now. We're going to be thrown to the wolves, as soon as they find Megan Rose dead in a ditch.
- Alex Cross: Now what makes you so sure that's what's going to happen?
- Ben Devine: Me getting fired or the girl in a ditch? Sorry. I'm having a pessimistic day.
- Vickie: It's time you forgave yourself.
- Alex Cross: Vickie, you know that forgiving yourself is the one thing a person cannot do.