"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses it turning." Prologue, pg 3
"And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin." Chapter 1, pg 8
"I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap." Chapter 2, pg 9
"It'd be better if I could be like you, out in the open and making up my own mind." Chapter 3, pg 15
"For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three.....
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