In this country, paper is more precious than blood. (Chapter 1)

Great. Rain means good luck. (Chapter 2)

That’s why Ona went bad. That’s why Nina left. (Chapter 3)

Let it go. Ona had her own life. It was her choice. (Chapter 4)

Disappearing is Leon’s way of dealing. He needs time away. On a ship, on a job, he’ll be okay. (Chapter 6)

Sometimes it takes a generation, like you, but eventually somebody comes. Tomorrow, or another generation’s tomorrow, it’s all the same. Blood is blood. (Chapter 7)

This trip’ll relax Mah, you know, and maybe... (Chapter 8)

America, this lie of a country! (Chapter 9)

Tommie Hom! For Mah, everything goes back to that. Mah thinks she’s paying for Tommie Hom. That’s why she’s being so weird to Leon. (Chapter 10)

Ona. Ona’s dead. Mo Ona, no more Ona. She jumped off the Nam Ping Yuenona tui-low. The police told me. (Chapter 11)

Everything is in the... (Chapter 12)