But all of a sudden, she looked at me, and I felt a chill creep straight up my back and into the roots of my hair. "Do you handle accident insurance?" Chapter One, p. 6

"Maybe I'm crazy. But there's something in me that loves Death. I think of myself as Death, sometimes. In a scarlet shroud, floating through the night. I'm so beautiful, then. And sad. And hungry to make the whole world happy, by taking them out where I am, into the night, away from all trouble, all unhappiness...." (Phyllis) Chapter Two, p. 18

"I told you, he gets on that train, but he don't get on it. All right, then. We've got a question of identification there, haven't we? Those crutches, that foot in a cast - there's the most perfect identification a man ever had." (Walter) Chapter Four, p. 38

I took one of the crutches and...