"There is no romance in going underground, in becoming anonymous, stateless, tended to by strangers who come and go in shadows." Aidan, page 1

"Our tenuous situations will change, or certain memories will prove too much to revisit day after day. And maybe that's for the best. Still, we must try, while we have time and truth on our side. We're far from innocent. But we're hardly guilty as charged." Aidan, page 3

"I think deep down you like what she does, the power of her pen, so to speak. Of course, the power of your pen seems more the issue these days." Julian Touche, Aidan, page 11

"Ah, Aidan, it's what we do. We children of the wealthy are doomed by the long shadows of our forefathers to lives of insignificance. And so we learn to pass the time with material pleasures, embrace the hobbies of our birthright - boats...