"Your Earth is still your Earth, but between the efforts of your people to destroy it and ours to restore it, it has changed." Book 1: Dawn; Section 1: Womb; Chapter 5; pp. 33-32.

"Tate and Leah laughed at her, refused absolutely to believe that any manipulation of DNA could mix Humans with extraterrestrial aliens." Book 1: Dawn; Section 3: Nursery; Chapter 4; p. 143.

"She would organize the Humans into a coherent unit or she would serve as a scapegoat for whoever else organized them." Book 1: Dawn; Section 3: Nursery; Chapter 11; p. 175.

"Yet it talked about mixed settlements, Human and Oankali-trade-partner settlements within which ooloi would control the fertility and "mix" the children of both groups." Book 1: Dawn; Section 4: The Training Room; Chapter 1; p. 200.

"In Phoenix, people had said things like that—that she was possessed of the devil, that she had sold first herself, then Humanity, that she was the first to go...