"'I keep thinking I have a tunnel in my chest. The path the bullet took, burrowing through the flesh and sinew and whatever muscle the bullet encountered (I am not the macho-muscled type, not at five eleven and one hundred eighteen pounds).'" Part 1, pg. 3

"'There I've said it: Inner Delta. Like pulling a bandage off a festering sore. Or a diseased rabbit from a soiled magician's hat.'" Part 1, pg. 9

"Miro's assignment was to kill the driver." Part 2, pg. 17

"Without the mask, he was Miro Shantas, without even a real name to identify him to the world. With the mask, he was Miro Shantas, freedom fighter. He often wondered which person he really was." Part 2, pg. 41

"My father, the phantom." Part 3, pg. 56

"This is why Miro did not like waiting. It gave him too much time to think, to ponder, to wonder about things he should leave...