"No one knew for certain when the trouble started at the Colgan School."
Chap. 1, pg. 1

"Kat had learned quite a lot of things before enrolling at the Colgan School - but the thing that she knew best was that this was the kind of place where she could never share them."
Chap. 1, pg. 9

"Kat sometimes wondered if that kind of self-assurance was something only very old money could buy. Then she wondered if it was something you could steal."
Chap. 2, pg. 13

"'I haven't heard about any jobs,' Kat insisted before remembering that she'd been out of the world. The loop. The life."
Chap. 3, pg. 19

"There are a lot of reasons people come to Las Vegas. Some come because they want to get rich. Some come because they want to get married. Some want to get lost, and others lost."
Chap. 7, pg. 51

"It is fairly safe to assume...