"Philippa nearly replied: 'Philippa Rose Palfrey is what I'm called. I'm here to find out who I am,' but checked herself in time, sensing that such an affectation would be an unpropitious beginning to the interview." Book 1, Proof of Identity: Chap. 1, p. 3

"Now, when he had long ago worked through his grief—and how accurately some of his colleagues had described that interestingly painful psychological process—when he could distance himself even from humiliation and pain, he was intrigued by the moral eccentricity which could, apparently without compunction, father on him another man's child, yet which was outraged by the thought of abortion." Book 1, Proof of Identity: Chap. 3, p. 23

"'You make a baby sound like an orgasm. And if that's all he married you for—and I can't think why else—it's a pity he didn't send you to a gynecologist for a...