"To him, Mister Salgado was probably not much more than a boy, but a boy whom history had favoured - a product of modern feudalism-whereas my uncle was a road-runner, a driver for an oil company." Part I, pg. 16

"He came from a line of people who believed in making their own future. To him, there were no boundaries to knowledge." Part I, pg. 34

"What I disliked most about Joseph was the power he had over me, the power to make me feel powerless." Part I, pg. 35

"I was trapped inside what I could see, what I could hear, what I could walk to without straying from my undefined boundaries, and in what I could remember from what I learned in my mud-walled school." Part I, pg. 40

"It was better, I thought, to leave it untold. That way maybe the event would fade. It would disappear. Without words...