"All my life, as long as I can remember, I have had the feeling that someone else is sharing my life." Section 1, p. 4

"I remember someone once saying that the trouble with magic was that the more a magician protects his secrets, the more banal they turn out to be." Section 1, p. 7

"I have compared my method with the display of seemingly bared hands, but in reality everything in this account represents the suffering walk of a fit man." Section 2, p. 36

"This Oneness of purpose, of action, of words is essential to the Pact." Section 2, p. 50

"What will seem new or baffling to an audience is simply a technical challenge for other professionals." Section 3, p. 66

"My life was in two distinct halves, kept emphatically apart, neither side suspected the other existed." Section 4, p. 85

"Shards of Light prowled the walls of the auditorium." Section 4, p. 92

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