Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings.

I'm not scared anymore, I just ... I don't know. I think it's because I saw someone else, someone behind your face, like you'd taken off a mask. It was still you, but it wasn't. And I don't think that person is going to hurt me, or Marci, or anybody else, but ... I guess the thing is that I don't know anything about that person. At all. And that's what scares me more than anything - that there could be two people, so different, and one of them so secret.

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.