"[Over microphone] Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Max Payne. New York's Finest, with the biggest mobster bodycount ever. Dearest guests, prepare to die … [Assorted gunfire] Max, I'd love to come and welcome you, but I'm busy dodging bullets and hiding under a desk at the moment."

"Max! 911! Bad guys with big guns!"

"[catchphrase] (Name of person(s) he is talking to), dearest of all my friends...!"

"[Catchphrase] Have no fear, Vlad is here!"

"[Final quote] God, I turned out to be such a damsel in distress."

"[To Vlad, having shot him in the arm] See? You're nothing but a one-armed bandit."

"You're a bastard, Max."

"[Trying to assist Max, to herself] Sometimes, Mona, you gotta go down to get up."

"[To Max] What are you so afraid of? What do you want from me?"

"It was almost morning, waking up from the American Dream. We are willing to suffer, to die for the things we care about. For love, for the right choices, Because of her, I had solved the case. My case. All of it. Who I am. Is it worth it? Saying that it never is would be a lie. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes, something good comes out of it. Something you know you wouldn't deserve in a million years. Something that gives you a reason to go on."

"[Final quote] I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was all right."

"Your past is like pieces of a broken mirror. You try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself."

"Now that I was with her, I was reluctant to hear her answers."

"She was beautiful. I hated her for making me feel this way."

"You'd have to be a first-degree fool to fall for a woman who returns from the dead only to put a gun to your face."

"Sometimes, something good comes out of it. Something you know you wouldn't deserve in a million years."

"I couldn't crack her. I had to crack the case."

"Mona's words on her being a "sitting duck" kept playing in my head. The bomb had misdirection written all over it."

"Winterson would have found a way to do this nice, neat and clean. Logic told me backup should be on its way. Somebody must have heard the gunfire. Logic was such a liar."

"Vinnie was about to piss his pants, he'd end up short circuiting the bomb and blowing us both up."

"It was all connected. The murder of Senator Gate, the Cleaners, the Inner Circle, Vinnie Gognitti. I had to make Winterson see it."

"[In a dream, in a cell labeled "paranoid"] Wait, just wait, I can figure this out, I can fix this. I can make it better! Just think. Think!"

"I felt the rise of that old familiar feeling. I hated it. I welcomed it."

"Mona, these guys are packing, close to overkill, hardcore professionals."

"[Over microphone] Vlad, shut up and stay alive, I'm coming."

"Without Mona's help, I'd be a dead man. Suddenly, for the first time in I don't know how long, I realized, I didn't wish to be dead."

"Behind the door [7th floor of the apartment building] were the suites. They weren't an improvement on the regular apartments."

"Home is where your heart is … [Cleaner in distance, speaking to other cleaner: "Simple, not like in the movies where the hero has a chance to disarm the bomb."] Once, it would have been a house in the suburbs … [Cleaner in distance, again speaking to other cleaner: "He opens the door, and BOOM!"] Now, nothing was left of it … [The door is opened by a third cleaner and blows all three up, as well as the apartment] I wasn't happy with the way the cleaners were doing their job."

"One thing left to do. I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back. One bullet at a time."

"I had tried to run from it, edit it out. Winterson was dead. I was a murderer."

"I'd found the sniper's hideout. They'd been spying on me for days, weeks, months even. My every action, observed, recorded, analyzed. The place was the proof every paranoiac dreams of."

"She was dead. The bullet in her head had come to the end of its slow-motion journey."

"Mona was still the answer. I caught glimpses of her out of the corner of my eye, felt her presence everywhere I went. I was trying to trace her path, recreate the winding course of the magic bullet in her head. I couldn't find her."

"Fraternizing with the enemy. I had stepped over the edge. The cartoon moment when the gravity waits for the coyote to realize his mistake before the plunge."

"I felt like I was walking into a trap. I felt guilty, like I was about to get caught."

""Cleaners" was a misnomer. They were making a mess of it."

"The world was getting too small for comfort."

"The gilding on the mask had cracked to reveal the rot underneath."

"I am afraid. But I start again from the beginning, trace my own steps to the scene of the crime."

"In a nightmare, every choice you make is a wrong one. I would wake up at night, afraid that day was a dream I'd forget."

"The explosion in my apartment had started a fire. The flames couldn't burn away my past. They only made the shadows behind me leap higher."

"Firing a gun is a binary choice. Either you pull the trigger or you don't."

"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over."

"I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings."

"Gognitti bailed. I made like Chow Yun-Fat."

"A bomb went off, turning snow into liquid gold. (...) It was a lucky break. The goons inside were spooked, but luck always came with a price tag."