“What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?”
“Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.”
“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”
“But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!”
“A shadow strolled past the car, indifferent to our curbside melodrama. This was my second time imperiled in a a parked vehicle in the space of three hours. I wondered what goonish spectacles I'd overlooked in my own career as a pavement walker.”
“Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.”