"Anna Teller was the only refugee on the plane from Munich to New York."

"Many of the passengers could not help staring at Anna Teller. It was mid-December of 1956; all the newspapers they ha…"

"All that summer, as no white people came to rent the empty, upstairs suites of the Valenti house or the Golden house,…"

""Listen to her," [he] said. "A voice like iron. That one will never rent or sell to them. They are more her enemy tha…"

"[He] could not move for a while. When at last he went to put the last gate up over the door and to snap shut the lock…"

"For a second of intense hurt, she remembered all the fires, all the joy of those yesterdays which had merged so quick…"

"She saw his dreamer eyes; the dream was love, togetherness, two people together. She saw his whole dreamer self, and …"

"They started off the porch, and [she] felt the poems moving with her into the street, like a singing. (p309)"

"Liz picked a stifling evening in late summer to describe love. She yanked the word from a misty, delicately poised ni…"

"The first spring after the death is unbearable. Its inexorable, complete awakening. Its compulsive memories. Its into…"