"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted…"

"Nothing at all in the German fridge, so new that its interior smells only of cold and long-chain monomers."

"Damien is thirty, Cayce two years older, but there is some carefully insulated module of immaturity in him, some shy …"

"Mirror-world. The plugs on appliances are huge, triple−pronged, for a species of current that only powers electric ch…"

"There is that mirror−world ingestion of archaic substances, she thinks: People smoke, and drink as though it were goo…"

"She's here on Blue Ant's ticket. Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geograp…"

"But down here, next to a display of Tommy Hilfiger, it's all started to go sideways on her, the trademark thing… My G…"

""You follow the footage." His eyes narrowing… Damien maintains, half−seriously, that followers of the footage compris…"

"Shorts, she thinks, drawing abreast of this trio, are somehow always wrong in London."

"The old man was as American as it got, but in what she thought of as some very recently archaic way. Someone who woul…"