“Sarah Aisling: I can’t defend against these charges because I can’t afford a litigator. But I can’t afford a litigator because I’ve been charged.Judge: You should have had insurance against contract suits.Sarah Aisling: I did.Judge: So what’s the problem?Sarah Aisling: They canceled my insurance when I filed the claim.Judge: So sue them!Sarah Aisling: I can’t, I don’t have a litigator.Judge: That’s very cute, Mrs. Aisling.”

“But when I saw the price of water I nearly choked. In the last hour it had gone up tenfold. Buying some more information, I learned that there had been an attack, this time at a water treatment facility in Brookhurst. A corporation from a competing Karitzu paid a mercenary firm to blow it up, and raw sewage was now spilling into the aquifer.My God! Did this happen before my shower? What about the toilet? Christ, I may have just blown six hundred caps on a single flush!Hell, for the next few hours I couldn’t even afford to wash my hands.”

“Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”

“No matter what I think about this, Leila, you're my daughter, so you are not walking down that aisle alone.”

“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.”

“Honoria sighed. “We can’t do what we did last year.”“I don’t see why not,” Sarah said. “I can’t imagine anyonewould recognize it from our interpretation”

“I am very self-conscious as I step over the backpacks strewn in the aisle. Do not fall.Do not fall.”