"When you see [Pinkie's] face he looked older, the slatey eyes were touched with the annihilating eternity from which he had come and to which he went." Part 1, Chap. 2, p. 20

"'Right and wrong' [Ida] said. 'I believe in right and wrong,' and delving a little deeper, with a sigh of happy satiety, she said, 'It's going to be exciting, it's going to be fun, it's going to be a bit of life.'" Part 1, Chap. 3, p. 43

"The races start next week, and I don't want to have any big scale mob fighting in Brighton. I don't mind you carving each other up in a quiet way ... but when two mobs start scrapping people who matter might get hurt." Part 2, Chap. 2, p. 69

"Spicer was restless these days. There was nothing for him to do ... like a with a poisoned body who believes that all will be well when...