Status Updates From Fidelity

"Forrest had fooled Phil in a terrible way for a terrible purpose. He had manipulated Phil into finding and capturing the victim and delivering her to him bound and drugged, helpless and without hope."

"Phil was a secret-keeper. Each person who knew Phil knew a different Phil."

"Her brain was filled with impressions of undeserved injuries inflicted on her by an uncaring world. She never seemed to be aware that she had done things to precipitate them, and she was always certain she knew what other people were thinking. She was never right."

"Rich people had a bizarre, unshakable belief in the magical power of their own neediness."

"It made him wonder how anyone as suspicious and secretive as Phil Kramer could have put himself alone in front of a gun on a dark street."

"Having a sense of how long things were supposed to last was important. Parties ended, and the last one to leave might get stuck explaining the mess."