"Mom wouldn't have lied - she never did. If it had been Dad, now ..." Part 1, Section 1, p. 8

"She felt a sudden surge of happiness, of contentment to have awakened on such a perfect morning. It was like being born again. A morning like the first morning of the world." Ibid, p. 8-9

"First, you pressed a couple of keys to set it to the 'Talk' mode, and then you tapped out what you wanted to say in ordinary English spelling, and then you coded for 'Tone', and last of all you pressed the 'Speak' bar, and it spoke ... not with a dry electronic rasp but with a human voice, Eva's real voice, taken from old home-shaper discs and sorted into all its possible sounds and stored in a memory to be used any way she wanted." Ibid, p. 12

"... it was all very tidy and sensible, just right for...