"Early the next morning I was strolling around as usual in my unpleasantly populated subconscious when I heard Edmond's voice very close to my ear saying Daisy Wake Up!" (Chapter 5, p. 17).

"I was thinking about almost nothing except that bird and then Edmond was next to my ear whispering Skylark, and I just nodded, knowing it was futile to ask how he knew the answers to questions you hadn't even got around to asking yet" (Chapter 5, p. 18).

"The first thing that happened wasn't our fault. That was a bomb that went off in the middle of a big train station in London the day after Aunt Penn went to Oslo and something like seven or seventy thousand people got killed" (Chapter 6, p. 24).

"We were quiet for the longest time just listening to the rain on the window with his leg resting against mine and a feeling flying between...