“I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.”

“One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.”

“Sometimes, life just sucked."Bite me," she muttered."Okay, where?" Deke asked, then went on. "Never mind. I've got some enticing ideas of my own.”

“I have no idea whether beginning with my accident was the best decision, as I've never written a book before. Truth be told, I started with the crash because I wanted to catch your interest and drag you into the story. You're still reading, so it seems to have worked.”

“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena”

“Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.”