“Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?She'd found it easy, being prettyTo hitch a ride into the city.”
“He had threeincision sites: one where the microscopic camera had gone in andtwo where they’d done the actual work, and the abuse he’d takentoday went straight to her heart. “Oh, Pace.”“I’m guessing that wasn’t an ‘Oh, Pace, you’re so sexy, take me.’ ”
“Oh, God, if that's where this woman had gotten her Sophie Mercer gossip, I was surprised she'd greeted me with a handshake instead of an exorcism.”
“The City is free of sin The snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that falls Oh no, the city is in a nightgown”
“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.”
“You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.”