- Warden: [in her prison exit interview] My money's on you. You're gonna be alright.
- Fran Ferguson: Is that a cry for help?
- [first lines]
- Narrator: This is the story of a woman cast a drift in the Midwest.
- Narrator: North Platte is a town of 8,000 residents, each of whom has an average personal inter-network size of over 148. Which is to say you won't always know your mechanic, but your mechanic will always know your bartender. In other words, everyone knows everybody. Or everybody knows everyone. You get the point.
- Narrator: [about her student] It looked like he was an idea, not a person. Almost like interacting with a .. hologram.