"Through the pane, Jack saw the drooping hat and, just under the brim where a face should be, a plate of steel with ice-cold eyes watching him through two jagged holes."
Chap. 6, p. 52

"You are the sorriest bunch of sinners I ever seen. Come in here acting like you own the place, all well-to-do like we can't tell what lies you are hiding. Filthy atheists! But you're guilty! Guilty as sin!"
Chap. 7, p. 69

"The game was being so perfectly executed that he wondered if his luck would run out before he had a chance to introduce the real stakes."
Chap. 9, p. 91

"In the end he would be God, because the game being played behind these dirty white walls wasn't unlike the game all people played everywhere, every day, every last one of them."
Chap. 9, p. 92

"She was in nothing more or less than the same predicament shared by...