"...It means that I'm the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that's why it's different now." Chp 2, Pg 21
Terry to Doctor Bonnie Fox in an effort to explain why the transplant bothers him now when it didn't before.

"We used to call it the Federal Bureau of Inertia." Chp 6, Pg 64
Terry McCaleb to Detective Arrango said in frustration after he is told that Arrango's boss won't allow him to have a copy of the murder book. It is a shot taken at the bureaucratic bullshit that goes on, making it hard to fathom how any case is ever solved.

"...In all my years in the bureau, most of the cases turned on some little detail, some little thin that was missed or didn't seem important at first." Chp 7, Pg 70
Terry to Graciela as he explains his part in looking into the murder of her sister.

"You...