“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...”

“We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future!”

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”

“The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.”

“We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.”

“Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers. ”