"Ever since I can remember, I had wanted to know about the Land of the Golden Mountain, but my mother had never wanted to talk about it" (Chapter 1, The Land of the Demons, pg. 1.)

"I can see the town of the Tang people even now in the late afternoon sun—not as it is now, full of souvenir shops and neon signs, but as it was then" (Chapter 2, The Company, pg. 18.)

"Of course, not all dragons are evil, as I later discovered the demons think they are, for they can be good to you as well as bad" (Chapter 3, The Dragon Man, pg. 34.)

"During that year, I learned that the Company was more than a group of men wanting money. We were brothers: strangers in a strange land who had banded together for mutual help and protection" Chapter 4, Tests, pg. 49.)

"Then Father shook hands like a demon...