"Beware of your wishes, they might come true, was one of Julietta's favourite remarks."
"Everything’s in there,” he says. “Tickets, hotel reservation, contacts. The company credit card. You’re my only hope.”
"When they ask to scan your passport, you are suspicious but hand it over, worried that articulating dissent will give the game up."
"Munich, Bethany thinks. Bavaria. Never been to Munich. Plus a weekend with her father, whom she rarely sees. 'Yes, that would be lovely"