“ If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign… David Axelrod
“ Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run—but it could just as easily cost you everything. Joanna Shupe
“ This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away. Joanna Shupe
“ Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.) Candida Martinelli
“ She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.) Candida Martinelli
“ Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary… Louis Auchincloss
“ I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our ch… Louis Auchincloss
“ But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by a higher power was regarded by many in the highest positions as obnoxio… Louis Auchincloss
