“Later that day the cops would crawl over the intricacies of his life and discover he was into pirates because he had been born with only one eye."

“Killing someone is easy. Hiding the body, now, that’s usually the hard part. That’s how you get caught."

“Santa Monica, 1923. The plane rattled, as if with fever. The engine spit once, and then, like a ruptured heart, my Curtiss OX-5 engine burst, spewing hot oil from both sides of its chest."

“Louise. August 1975. The bed is empty. Louise, the counselor— twenty-three, short-limbed, rasp-voiced, jolly—stands barefoot on the warm rough planks of the cabin."

“To Emmett, all the houses in this part of the country looked like they’d been dropped from the sky. The Watson house just looked like it’d had a rougher landing. The roof line sagged on either side of the chimney and the window frames were slanted just enough that half the windows wouldn’t quite open and the other half wouldn’t quite shut. In another moment, they’d be able to see how the paint had been shaken right off the clapboard.”

“The events of September 11 were historic for many reasons. One of them was that the airspace over the United States was shut down, and every plane in the sky was ordered to land immediately at the nearest available airport.”

“1 August 2023 4:34 p.m. There were only five minutes left for Joy Moody and her twin daughters."

“I mostly remember the trial,” she said. “And the aftermath - being taken into a room and asked to draw what happened."

“After having a nationally televised panic attack on “Good Morning America,” Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes."

“Lizzie pressed hard on the bridge of her nose, willing the numbers in front of her to change.”