"It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like that sun we seldom saw." Part 1: Prologue, p. 3

"Truly, when I was very young, way back in the Fifties, I believe all of life would be like one long and perfect summer day. After all, it did start out that way." Part 1: Goodbye, Daddy, p. 5

"With our father's death, a nightmare began to shadow our days." Part 1: Goodbye, Daddy, p. 21

"Fun, games, parties, riches beyond belief, a house as big as a palace, with servants who lived over a huge garage that stored away at least nine or ten expensive automobiles. Who would ever have guessed my mother came from a family like that?" Part 1: Goodbye, Daddy, p. 35

"Looking backward to that night ride on the train, I realize that was the very night I began to grow up, and philosophize." Part 1: The Road to Riches, p. 37

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