"At the defendant's table sat Anthony Altieri, slouched in a wheelchair, looking like a pale, fat frog folding in on itself. Only his eyes were alive and every time he looked at Diane Stevens in the witness chair, she could literally feel the pulse of his hatred." Chapter 1, pg. 9

"Diane was signing an autograph when a man came up behind her and said, 'I like your curves.'

Diane stiffened. Furious, she spun around and opened her mouth to make a sharp retort, when he went on:

'They have the delicacy of a Rossetti or a Manet.' He was studying one of her paintings on the wall." Chapter 2, pg. 20

"As Diane observed their departure, she remembered the first time she had watched Richard coach the boys. He had talked to them as though he were their age, in language they understood and they loved him for it...