Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia." "Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.

Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.