"I'm not a party girl. The earsplitting music, the gyrating bodies, the inebriated smiles - not my thing" (Chapter 1, p. 13).

"I'd spent the past seventeen years having no knowledge that the girl who stole my chocolate milk in elementary school and adhered feminine pads to my school locker in junior high shared my DNA" (Chapter 3, p. 36).

"Our bodies didn't belong to fallen angels" (Chapter 6, p. 62).

"If I needed an excuse to stay away from Dante, whom I no longer trusted, it was as good as any" (Chapter 8, p. 72).

"I'd just found the lead I so desperately needed" (Chapter 12, p. 101).

"Before I could blink, he plunged the knife into my side, and it was as though I'd been pushed in a raging furnace" (Chapter 13, p. 114).

"I'd take one bottle, and it would be enough. I'd feel the rush of power once more and I'd be satisfied. Just once more...