"I'd noticed things on the way down, too. I'd seen it all—the way he took off his hat, the way he lit her cigarette, the way she walked away, her scarf trailing in her hand. Flower petals and a pineapple vase." Chapter 1, pp. 2-3

"Back then they were everything I knew about glamour. Everything I knew about love." Chapter 4, p. 20

"It didn't feel like anyone was chasing us. Not at all." Chapter 4, p. 27

"I know now how you can take one step and you can't stop yourself from taking another. I know now what it means to want. I know it can get you to a place where there's no way out. I know now that there's no such thing as just one. But I didn't know it then." Chapter 6, p. 42

"I took the fact that Joe called him Pete, not Peter, as a good sign...