“I'm standing in the lake, forming a whirlpool with my arms, letting the force of atonement pull me into its center until I cannot any longer hang onto my observations or any sense of myself, like dust and hydrogen clouds getting all excited white creating new stars to light the backyard. How poignantly emptiness cries out to be filled.”

“NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.”

“He [Pat] pushed a little wheat onto the edge of the shovel, then swung the thing around with such sudden force that the wheat might have actually made it onto the truck, if only he hadn't let go of the shovel. But he did let go of it, and it went sailing through the air like a silver spaceship until my forehead stopped it."You've killed me!" I cried. I slipped down onto the pile of wheat, blinking wildly and clutching at my wounded forehead."I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" he shouted.I felt quite numb all over, as if I weren't really there."I see three angels with golden trumpets," I informed him.At this point he began to blubber."Don't die!" he cried."It's too late. I responded. "You've killed me, and now I'm going to die."They'll probably hang you," I added as an afterthought.”

“It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.”

“I’m beside myself with excitement over my new clone standing next to me.”

“Reed, I know that you think that it's better to wait until I evolve fully, but I don't think I can wait any longer..... You are my blood now and I'm yours. We are bound to each other in every way possible but one and I.. I don't know where I'm going, I don't even know what I've become, but I know that if I am with you, then I'm free...I'm home. Let me show you what you mean to me. Let me pull you into my world, as you have pulled me into yours.”