"That was when he first thought it: that a meeting in a graveyard was not the best way to begin an attachment. The sparrow fluttered near him but he shook it off. The next time he saw her, he would certainly find out why she was unhappy. The next time he saw her she was dead." Chapter 1, Page 13

"'It's records, you see, those headstones. And she asked to see the parish register. She was looking for someone but probably it hadn't anything to do with the antecedents of George Washington.'" Chapter 3, Page 28

"The Jerusalem Inn was a square, stucco building with a sign as plain as the rest of it, a board with the name in wide black letters stuck on the side like an afterthought and lit by a weak overhanging lamp." Chapter 5, Page 46

"He felt the loss of something irreplaceable, as if a their had...