Chapter 66:.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by way of dispossession. And what you do not know is the only thing you know.

Chapter 71:.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Chapter 72:.

The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change. However you disguise it, this thing does not change: the perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

Chapter 77:.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

The Napa County Sheriff's Department in this fiction bears no resemblance to the superlative law-enforcement agency of the same name in the real world, nor is any person in this story based in any way whatsoever on any real person in Napa County, California.

Barbara's most mysterious statement-want to know what it says, the sea. What it is that it keeps on saying-is from Dombey and Son.