"Kyoto, the spiritual heart of Japan, was a thousand years old yet as new as a fresh idea: a fascinating hodgepodge of neon signs and ancient temples, plastic gimcrackery and beautifully hand-carve stone, the worst of modern architecture thrusting up next to palaces and ornate shrines that were weathered by centuries of hot, damp summers and cold, damp winters." Part One, Joanna, Chapter 1, pg. 3

"A shiver passed through Joanna, and it felt like an echo of chills that she endured every night, when waking from the nightmare." Part One, Joanna, Chapter 8, pg. 39

"Regardless of the risk, he was determined to have the answers that he wanted. His rooms had been searched, and he had been cut. He owed these people a measure of humiliation and pain."
Part One, Joanna, Chapter 13, pg. 80

"It was not a night for sleeping alone, but the bed that awaited him would be empty...