One man, an investment banker from Cantor Fitzgerald, took her to see the viewing deck like a good Samaritan since he felt sorry for her, and… and it was like flying, she could see the entire city,...

Do you mean Y2K? The Enron Scandal? In devastation there is opportunity, you know!

I'm convinced that a few people are going to stand up and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.

Bernie cursed and swore like a sailor sometimes, even around young children, to the point where he was kicked out of Disney World during a trip to Orlando, Florida one year. To boot, he'd jabbed a...

Tony had spent a great deal of time dwelling on whoever this poor Disney hostess must have been, not as a casualty but as a person. She never got to be an adult, he'd told himself in horror.

I can pretend it's all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life… what a trade-off!

There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have...

Like weddings, funerals are about unity. Funerals are the unity of a person with the sweet hereafter, assuming that one believes in such a thing.

there's no better system than our own morality, not law, not science, not religion… just decency.

Money isn't everything. It's the only thing.

Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. …Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way, she sighs as she gets out of...

Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?

Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked...

I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.

…Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution."...

I think we ought to find something else to do, said Mandy. But Alecto my love, you're the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art...

I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.

Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. …It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it? she asked....