"Vertigo in a post-Shifter like me usually means a ghost is turning shade. They go down that one-way path when they let bitterness warp their souls" (Chapter 1, p. 6).

"I knew then that everything would change the next night. It was like time had folded in on itself, and I could remember the future. A future I already hated" (Chapter 1, p. 15).

"Same with the answers you seek," she said. "You won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out. They'll come when you're looking at something else" (Chapter 6, p. 80).

"Maybe I was paranoid, but Eowyn seemed nervous as she showed us to the door, as though she were a mother sending kids off to army boot camp" (Chapter 11, p. 135).

"He's pissed as hell - about dying, about this stupid court case, about everything he can't do." The phone shifted again. "Sometimes he makes me so dizzy I think...