"He's crying about the wrong thing, and I find myself almost jealous of that." (Claire, Part I, p. 11)

"I feel like I'm in one of those myths where the one thing the woman can't do is turn around and see what's behind her." (Claire, Part I, p. 13)

"I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all." (Claire, Part I, p. 16)

"Something as mundane as two sheets of paper from an office file could provide the final evidence of how vulnerable we are, how we live our lives not knowing how or when they will end." (Jasper, Part I, p. 24)

"I know immediately this is going to be one of the true historic moments of my life - that the personal and the historic are converging. I know people will ask, Where were you when you first heard?" (Peter, Part I, p. 37)

"I had no...