Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.