“That held for a few minutes, until the head of Budget pointed out that SA was not much better than SS.”

“It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding”

“Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.”

“From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.”

“There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.”

“This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know the purpose of the company besides making more money. What's all the money going to be used for?”

“She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck You.”