“Then theyre always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If you cant buy what theyre selling, youre a zero in the system.”

“He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.”

“It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then...”

“God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”