“Lucas: Are you afraid of dogs, Miranda?Miranda: Dogs, no. Ponies with fangs take some gettin used to.”

“Unwillingly Miranda wakes,Feels the sun with terror,One unwilling step she takes,Shuddering to the mirror.Miranda in Miranda's sightIs old and gray and dirty;Twenty-nine she was last night;This morning she is thirty.Shining like the morning star,Like the twilight shining,Haunted by a calendar,Miranda is a-pining.Silly girl, silver girl,Draw the mirror toward you;Time who makes the years to whirlAdorned as he adored you.Time is timelessness for you;Calendars for the human;What's a year, or thirty, toLoveliness made woman?Oh, Night will not see thirty again,Yet soft her wing, Miranda;Pick up your glass and tell me, then--How old is Spring, Miranda?”

“That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~”

“Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”

“Miranda tore through the woods like a chupacabra chased her.”

“Well, I got my hand. What more does a man need?”“Yes, and you’ve used that hand three-thousand times since you took over the ship.”[David to Miranda]”