“This was globalization: everyone everywhere was interchangeable. You could be anyone anywhere to do anything.”

“This woman is American, but she speaks with no regional accent. She could be from anywhere. She could be anyone.”

“You know what this means?"Everyone does, but nobody answers.”

“This had been part of her training, part of her career, part of herself: whatever was going on, live like a normal person. Do normal things, see normal people. Don't give anyone a reason to question you, investigate you. Don't give them any meaningful answers to prying questions that might be asked after you've disappeared. Don't create any suspicion that you were not who you claimed to be.”

“She needed friends, and a life, and this is how you acquired those things: by talking to strangers. Everyone was a stranger, all on equal footing in strangerhood.”

“Plus she had to admit that a small part of her secrecy was that she was holding something back, for herself. If she never told Dexter the truth, she was still reserving the right to return to her old life. To one day be a covert operative again. To be a person who could keep the largest secrets from everyone, including her husband, forever.”

“And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.”