"My last hours were spent pondering the folly of my short, useless life" (Chapter 3, pg. 18.)

"I don't mean hero as in the fools who throw themselves on plasma grenades," he contunued, licking his thin lips with a lizard's flick of tongue. "I mean hero as in he whose prowess and beneficence is so legendary that he comes to be honored as a divinity" (Chapter 8, pg. 66.)

"As for what will happen to her... again, I reassure you, my son, our intentions are to prevent her from infecting the Body of Christ in the Pax from her virus, but we will do so without harming her. Indeed, our mission... your mission... is to save the child's imortal soul" (Chapter 9, pg. 83.)

"The effect was a definite inducement to acrophobia, the illusion oof standing unprotected in space created something akin to agoraphobia. I had no known until that instant that I was...