"Never mind that it is the ocean dwellers who supply the nation's food and keep watch over the energy sources - the tides and hydrothermal vents. We were still freaks to them" (Chapter 2, p. 22).

"Ever since the Rising became an official catastrophe, we've lived under Emergency Law, which means certain rights get suspended" (Chapter 4, p. 43).

"But lots of pioneers came subsea looking for a fresh start and it was understood that if a person worked hard and contributed to the community, nobody would bring up his past" (Chapter 4, p. 48).

"I'd picked out the land for my own homestead, measuring out the hundred acres of unclaimed terrain more times than I'd admit. The land was perfect, too - beautiful and rich with wildlife" (Chapter 5, p. 53).

""Most people live on the affordable floors below the moving walkways and train tubes, so everything is shadowy." She gazed at the expanse of...