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"I keep seeing her face, upturned in the pool. Her long hair darkened by the water, stringy and tangled and noodling around her neck. Her eyes are closed, her body floating. Her lips are parted just slightly, and it looks as if she's resting, tranquil and at peace." Ch1 opening
"Khai was supposed to be crying. He knew he was supposed to be crying. Everyone else was. But his eyes were dry." -Prologue opening
"She could - almost - have been one of The Survivors. Standing there, outlined by the weak light, her back turned and the salt water lapping at her feet. Then she moved." Prologue opening
"A well-conceived costume is a new identity, the father used to say as he put on his commoner's cloak. From now until I return, I am no longer the king." -Section 1 opening
"Dreamers, singers, talkers and killers; they can dazzle with their beauty or their talent or their unmitigated evil, but inside themselves they are as frail and desperate as the rest of us. But can you see them? Can you unravel the truth? These are people you know, but not as you know them. Peel back the mask and see."
"I almost went back for her. When she didn't show. When she didn't answer her phone. When she didn't reply to my text." - Ch1 Opening
"When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I want to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of the three Tides. This is something that happens only once every eight years." Ch1 opening
'This is what happened. On the night that the worst heat wave in northern New England history finally broke - the night of July 19 - the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen." - The Mist, Ch1 opening
"Dominic Yun is in my sound booth. He knows it's my sound booth. He's been here four months, and there's no way he doesn't know it's my sound booth." - Ch1 Opening
"It was Mrs. H who started calling her the actress, making it sound like she was one of those old Hollywood legends - Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Lauren Bacall." - Ch1 opening
"Out here, darkness meant death" - Ch1 opening
"A forty-five-year-old man - white male, father of three - awoke on the floor of his hotel room." - Prologue opening
"It had been an evening like any other, spent stretched out on the sofa." - Rupture, Chapter 1 opening
"How do you like Iceland?" - Blackout, Chapter 1 opening
"Unsettling." - Nightblind, Chapter 1 opening
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