"Oh God, I can't breathe. What's happening? I can't get my breath. It's horrible. I'm not fine."
Chap. 1, p. 4

"'And I flashed on the last time I'd been inside an emergency room. I remembered the doctors' ghostlike hands on my body, the loud throbbing on my heart, and wondering if I was going to get out alive.'"
Chap. 4, p. 12

"I didn't know how or why but this girl had been killed, but my eyes and gut told me that she hadn't died in this car."
Chap. 9, p. 26

"'I'm afraid that this is going to be an emotional trial because people have died.'"
Chap. 22, p. 62

"'I don't know what you've been smoking, Boxer, but you've got the job.'"
Chap. 27, p. 75

"I always found the stark reality of the morgue, Claire's place, a shock to the nervous system - the unforgiving white light on the dead, the...