"The storm only gathered strength during the short trip to Paddington. Lenox felt keenly for poor William Elliott, the raw-faced young groom, just seventeen, who sat atop the box of the carriage with the reins and whip in hand."
"I don’t have any great ambitions for myself. It’s enough for me if the three of us can lead safe, healthy lives."
"Nga-Yee stood outside a six-story tenement building on Second Street in Sai Ying Pun, staring at the house number in confusion."
"Max reappeared a half hour later wearing a sponge robe and cradling a fruit-and-veggie smoothie."
"Deshawn Ryan came out of one hole in the ground and walked thirteen blocks through the rain to reach the next."
"I was about to start the earthquake when the phone rang. It wasn’t to be a big earthquake—I was thinking of two, maybe three hundred dead."
"I told you about the room, didn’t I? The room with dozens of locks on it."
"Our school is locked up behind a six-foot wall with barbed wire on top, and an iron gate that has a door painted purple."
