- Lucy MacLean: Excuse me! This isn't Rome, okay? This is America.
- Lacerta Legate: Is it?
- Lucy MacLean: Yeah, it is. At least according to all the maps.
- Lacerta Legate: Maps drawn by the dead. All that remains of America is the overwhelming evidence of its failure.
- Lucy MacLean: You should know that I am not even a virgin. And that's not including all the cousin stuff I did, which is at least a page or two on my resume.
- Thaddeus: [to the children in his sweatshop] All in all, I'd say life's pretty good. What do we always say?
- Child workers: MOST KIDS ARE DEAD BY THIS AGE!
