“When one has suspected a thing for weeks, why is being confronted with stark evidence so much worse?”

“... she had always found risk headier than the finest champagne.”

“...alongside those men a number of women had come to this glittering city. Women who were perhaps equally powerful, though they had to find more subtle ways to wield their power.”

“I've learned to choose my allies carefully and believe in them once I've made my choice.”

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

“That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have been the coolest thing you ever will do. Your entire existence has been moving toward one shining moment, George, and that was the moment when you thought, 'Hey, why don't I just go over the zombies?”

“We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.”