"No matter what ugliness appeared, life kept its rhythm" (Chapter 1, p. 2).

"It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone" (Chapter 1, p. 11).

"It was the power to give voice that had drawn her to forensics. The dead told a story that the pathologist, if she were good enough, could hear, and Cameryn wanted to be that person" (Chapter 1, p. 14).

"Ahead of her was her very first forensic case. She'd read theory after theory in her books, but this was reality and the difference made her almost dizzy. A puzzle etched in the remains of a human, ready for her to decipher, and she felt her hands begin to sweat inside the gloves" (Chapter 2, p. 26-27).

"Cameryn may have found our answer. Nice work. Don't know if I would have thought to...