"My father had a face that could stop a clock. I don't mean that he was ugly or anything; it was a phrase the ChronoGuard used to describe someone who had the power to reduce time to an ultraslow trickle." Chap. 1, p. 1

"My pager had delivered a disconcerting message; the unstealable had just been stolen."
Chap. 2, p. 11

"Buckett nodded. His conversation had pretty much dried up." Chap. 4, p. 41

"The SO-1 officials shuffled slightly as I concluded my story. They swapped looks, but I had no interest in whether they believed me or not. Hades had left me for dead but my time wasn't yet up. The copy of Jane Eyre that Tamworth had given me had saved my life." Chap. 5, p. 55

"Ordinarily I would not have believed that Rochester could have torn himself from the pages of Jane Eyre and come to my aid that night; such a...