“After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.”
“When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!”
“Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.”
“Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.”
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
“Rising up, I kissed Daemon's cheek. "No one trusts him, but you can't threaten him every five seconds.""Yes, I can.”