"This was Helen Hoover Boyle. Our hero. Now dead but not dead" (Prologue, pg. 6.)

"The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact" (Chapter 1, pg. 7.)

"This isn't about quality. It's about volume." Chapter 3, pg. 17.)

"I need to make sure every copy of this book is destroyed" (Chapter 5, pg. 32.)

"When the first paramedic arrived on the scene, the first action he took was to call his stockbroker" (Chapter 8, pg. 45.)

"But, no, I'm never going to use it. That's that. I'm just not. Ever" (Chapter 10, pg. 58.)

"Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish" (Chapter 15, pg. 87.)

"And like everyone else here, we're waiting for a miracle. For a messiah" (Chapter 18, pg. 107.)

"'Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.'" Chapter 23, pg. 149

"The police report doesn't say how warm my wife, Gina, felt when...