"Your writer's source material will be a diary my husband, Damian, and I kept last year. An unusual, very original diary that will cost you two million dollars. It's about ... an awful nest of machete murders. Over a hundred of them."
— Carrie Rose, Introduction, Page 12

"One plan was titled 'Systematic Government Assassinations,' the other was simply called, 'Machete.'"
Chapter 1, Page 21

"He even picked up speed a little. The slightest show-off move. Daniel Morelon imitation. That saved him, they said."
Chapter 4, Page 48 as Peter McDonald bicycles past Damian Rose

"The Philadelphia doorman had found a bloody machete driving halfway to China in the sand. He'd found the two hippies who had been killed and mutilated by the Cuban and Kingfish Toone. And so had a hungry band of wild goats."
Chapter 5, Page 54

"He's spent the previous ten minutes, the entire slow dance back through the mutilated...