"... she looked at Uncle Michael lying there, hie profile deep in the snow-white cotton cover of the down pillow, dark lashes and eyebrows surprisingly distinct. Very much a man, just a smidgen more testosterone and you would have had a barrel-chested ape with bushy eyebrows. But there had not been that smidgen. Perfection had been the result."

- p.o.v. Mona.


"It is a terrible thing to realize that you depend so much upon another; that your entire sense of well-being is connected to that one—that you need him, love him, that he is the chief witness of your life. Yuri was disappointed in himself and leery. But this was the realization."

-Yuri p.o.v.


"She did not look at her face; she never did anymore because it wasn't her face, it was someone else's old wrinkled face, with deep vertical lines, very solemn and cold, and drooping lids, and the skin was too large for the bones underneath, and her eyebrows and her chin had lost thheir contour."

- Ancient Evelyn p.o.v.


"...though it loves us and needs us—it also hates us."

- Marie Claudette.


"I knew nothing else, nothing unbounded and purgatorial as what I have since suffered. Mine was the naïveté of the living; now it is the confusion and the longing of the dead."

- Julien, p. 355


"I saw my definition of virtue. To be good, to love, to father, to mother, to nurture, to heal. I saw it in its shining simplicity. "What can you do, you fool?" I asked myself. "Except keep your family safe, give them the means to live on their own, strong and healthy and good. Give them the conscience and protect them from evil."

- Julien, p. 369


"There isn't anybody, darling. That's the secret of the universe," he said. "That's my theme, that is my cry. That is my message."

-Lasher, p. 100-101


"...a man in the hand is worth two ghosts in a dream."

-Mona p. 32


"It's no wonder we all marry our cousins; we don't want to bring in the innocents. When you marry a Mayfair, you should be a Mayfair. You have lots of blood on your hands."

-Gifford p. 68


"the family was not just the family to them; it was the clan; the nation; the religion; the obsession."

- Gifford p. 90


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