"Newborn #485GA18M died on June 30, 2076, at 6:07 in the morning. She was three days old." Chapter 1

"War, see, is when two sides fight, maybe not evenly, but at least they both get a few swings in. What we call the Partial War was mankind getting' mugged in an alley." Chapter 6

"The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solumn, the gravestones for an entire world. Then they disappeared, and there was nothing left but nothing." From Kira's dream, Chapter 14

"A hand rose up from the rubble in front of her, clad in the dark gray uniform and body armor she recognized from countless war-era photographs. It was a Partial." Chapter 15

"There are forty thousand people on Long Island," he said. "There used to be millions." Chapter 18

"We couldn't move out of our government-assigned slum because our wages were barely livable, and nobody would sell to us anyway...