"Uncle Misha looked at his boys, his four boys, related to him not by blood nor even by love, but by mutual dependence." Chap. 1, p. 3

"How cheap it is these days to buy a man's soul, thought Gregor. On the streets of this new Russia, one could barter for anything." Chap. 1, p. 6

"The heart she'd once felt thudding in her chest when she'd played as a five-year-old, married as a twenty-year-old, and strained at childbirth as a twenty-one-year-old, would go on beating in the chest of a stranger. It was as close as one could come to immortality." Chap. 3, p. 38

"She thought about Victor Voss and his money, about all the things that money could buy. She thought about the amazing confluence of events that had granted Nina Voss a new heart." Chap. 8, p. 107

"Viewing the corpse of a loved one is difficult enough. When that loved one...