"Where you're supposed to be is some big West Hills wedding reception in a big manor house with flower arrangements and stuffed mushrooms all over the house. This is called scene setting: where everybody is, who's alive, who's dead." Chapter 1, pg. 11

"Most of my adult life so far has been me standing on seamless paper for a raft of bucks per hour, wearing clothes and shoes, my hair done and some famous fashion photographer telling me how to feel." Chapter 1, pg. 13

"'Don't let me die here on this floor,' Brandy says, and her big hands clutch at me. 'My hair,' she says, 'My hair will be flat in the back.'" Chapter 1, pg. 17

"Don't expect this to be the kind of story that goes and then, and then, and then.
What happens here will have more of that fashion magazine feel, a Vogue or a Glamour...