“Joan commented, upon sentence, "My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.”

“... but remember that I shall love your sorrow...”

“We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...”

“The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.”

“... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.”

“She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is—a cat!"But that was not how his mind saw her—quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?”

“There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.”