And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.