"If you're not for us, you're against us...If nobody cooperates, they can't fire us all."
"I just heard they assigned you a vulture...and the first step toward the mission to Rakhat was taken." (13)

"he'd been loved by good parents and well taught by good teachers, and those two facts accounted for the habit of obedience that mystified and enraged Peggy Soong." (15)

"When he tried to leaven the sessions with jokes or asides or funny stories, she stared at him, unamused, until he gave up and answered her question." (35)

"Do you experience God?" (49)

"D.W. had always felt about half responsible for the way things had turned out, good and bad. That was arrogant; Emilio had made his own decisions. But D.W. had seen the potential in t he boy and hadn't hesitated a minute when he'd gotten a chance to pull the kid out of...