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"Natalie Blake had completely forgotten what it was like to be poor. It was a language she'd stopped being able to speak, or even to understand."

"It seemed that Natalie Blake and Francesco De Angelia had opposite understandings of this word 'choice.' Both believed their own interpretation to be objectively considered and in no way the product of their contrasting upbringings."

"Her phone rang. She answered it and called somebody 'Baby.' She turned right. Another life."

"He hurried to the stairs, and was a few steps down when he heard a hud on the carpet above as she went down on her knees, and he knew he was meant to feel heavy, but the truth was he felt like a man undergoing some not-yet-invented process called particle transfer, wonderfully, blissfully light."