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I can't add quotes from this book for some reason. Anybody else have this problem?

Carey QUOTE:

"Eliott thought back to their college days and it didn't seem like a quarter of a century ago. He struggled to think of what he had done with tw…moreQUOTE:

"Eliott thought back to their college days and it didn't seem like a quarter of a century ago. He struggled to think of what he had done with twenty-five years, of all the things that had happened to him in that time. But between a few landmarks there seem to be nothing but a great fog, year upon a year lived with nothing to show for it, not even happy memories. He had wasted too much time."

"In his experience, people still had a remarkable faith in the objectivity and truthfulness of computers and the information they held. By comparison, the word of a human being was always suspect." (P.301)

"The [Carbon Monoxide] whirled and scattered deep inside the tissue of her lungs, a blizzard of molecules seeking out the hemo globin in her blood, the molecule for which it had a par ticular affinity. Where the CO molecules bonded with the hemoglobin, the oxygen her body needed was locked out. Alex began to asphyxiate. At blood levels of thirty percent, she would begin to suffer throbbing in the temples; at forty percent, dizziness, nausea, dimness of vision. Sleep would spiral into coma, coma into death."(less)

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