"It's the only mention of the hospital in the Concordance. The Denouement did not happen here."

"My father studied thermonuclear reactions. He could explain Nagasaki at the subatomic level."

"It said it was the only amber flower in this wet, cold city, a city of tall talk and late busses."

"On the twelfth anniversary of my brother's death, a social worker explained to me Will was not dead but divorced and tan and keeping drunk in Key West."

"On January the First of that year, he thought how much his vomit tasted like an alkaline battery."