“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”

“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had never truly loved or hated, for she had never seen the world she had been used to living in closely enough for it to evoke passion in her.”

“Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.”

“My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas.”

“Ben had never seen another hotel quite like The Mandrake. The valets were all dressed like Roman Centurions, the Doorman was dressed like Caesar, and the bellmen all had dark blue business suits and Donald Trump wigs.”