"With slowly growing horror she stared at the letter, at the one black sentence that peered upat her from the smudged paper." Chapter 1, p. 8

"Crazy, Barry repeated to himself. Why should I suddenly start thinking people are following me just because Julie James pushes the panic button?" Chapter 2, p. 22

"We can't do that (break the pact). But we can talk to the others. We can dissolve the pact, if we're all in agreement." Chapter 3, p. 31

"It was a picture cut from a magazine advertisement. The written message was cut away, and what remained was a drawing of a little boy on a bicycle." Chapter 4, p. 40

"That bike came out of nowhere. We just went around a curve and there is was. No lights. No reflectors." Chapter 5, p. 49

"There had been times over the past months when the thought of Ray had filled Barry with a raging envy. Just...