Violence

• 'they meant to murder him'
• 'you might expect a hunter to look like that... before the kill'
• 'vitriol bottle'
• 'his fingers pinched her wrist'
• 'the tricks he had learnt... with a razor blade'
• 'carving each other up in a quiet way'
• 'slashed with his razored nail at brewers cheek'
• 'poison twisted in the boys veins'
• 'it was worth murdering the world'
• 'his fingers curled with a passionate hatred around the vitriol bottle'
• 'murders of spicer and hale were trivial acts'
• 'you you little bitch why cant you go back home forever and let me be'
• 'every man had their razor out'
• 'the boy looked down at the body'
• 'the word murder conveyed noo more to him than the word box collar girafe'
• 'He began to pull off the legs and wings one by one'
• Violence and murder go hand in hand in this novel, and although not all violent acts end in murder, all murders are violent.
• Terrible as the murders are, the violence is perhaps more disturbing, because Greene describes it so graphically.