"The funerals were held yesterday and because Mom didn’t want Fran, Robin or Alex to see the people crying and carrying-on, she asked the Olyphants to drop them off at our house and then pick them up on their way home."
"We don't like to use the word 'test.' We find it causes undue stress."
"She was curious at this invasion, this newest plague to strike the camp."
'“Are you afraid?” Peggy asks her reflection. “What frightens you most?”'
"For almost a year after he was shot, Stride didn’t miss his job."
"'Adeena, can you please shut that off? If I have to listen to that Mariah Carey song one more time . . .'"
"The morning newspapers offered precious few developments about the amusement park massacre."
"When I was a young woman at the police training academy, I learned two important things."
"Oscar, for the twentieth—maybe even thirtieth time since he got here—is lost in the medina."
