“Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortalhumanity. And finally, again…the sun.”

“Perhaps, but this Awakening felt very different from those in the past. A peculiar sensation seemed tospread throughout his body, propelled by the very beating of his heart. Within his veins, lycan bloodmixed with his own, merging in an unexpected alchemical reaction. He felt a change come over him, afundamental transformation in his very nature. Power such as he had never known surged through hisveins. His eyes snapped open, revealing a pair of jet-black orbs. Hybrid eyes.”

“(On the energy radiated by the Sun)It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.”

“And you still haven't answered any of my one-hundred ten questions, or my follow ups.”

“The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.”

“I am told that in the heart of a vast, bowl-shaped valley deep inside the High Pamir where the sheep and the goats spend their summers grazing by the hundreds as far as the eye can see, there is a cold blue stream that meanders through emerald meadows until it spills into a small lake that carries the color of the sky and that the surface of this lake and the surrounding grasslands shiver in unison beneath the movement of a wind that never stops blowing. ”

“All told, U.S. allies in Central America during Reagan's two terms killed over 300,000 people, tortured hundreds of thousands, and drove millions into exile.”