"The town founder himself, Aaron Jenkins, a seventeen-year-old boy from Warwick, England, was the first to realize that some localities are accompanied by bad luck."
Part 1: Chapter 1, pg. 4.

"He arrived like a bundle of mail, on a gray and windy day." Part 1: Chapter 2, pg. 15.

"Once you get a taste of getting back at someone, it sticks with you." Part 1: Chapter 3, pg. 37.

"That is how you know you've left childhood behind—when you wish for time to go backward." Part 1: Chapter 4, pg. 51.

"Gwen has been sanding by the window, fogging up the glass with her breath and feeling as trapped as a fly in pudding." Part 1: Chapter 6, pg. 67.

"His wife and his child were trapped in that house, but he could no more go inside and search for them than he could jump up and land on the moon." Part 1: Chapter 8, pg. 88.

"It happens quickly—seeing all...