"And something leaned in, vastness unutterable, from beyond the most distant edge of anything he'd ever known or imagined, and touched him." Chap. 3, p. 18

"He was like a kid who'd grown up beside an ocean, taking it as much for granted as he took the sky, but knowing nothing of currents, shipping routes, or the ins and outs of weather." Chap. 6, p. 38

"How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion?" Chap. 12, p. 73

"There had been times, during that long day, when Mitchell's coded memories had risen in him, filling him with a strange dread that seemed to have nothing to do with the operation at hand." Chap. 14, p. 88

"Knowledge lit him like an arcade game, and he surged forward with the plane-ness of the jet, feeling the flexible airframe reshape itself for...