“This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.”

“The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.”

“Because the world was not the world, that was the thing, that was the terrible truth he had discovered. It was a dream world, a veil of light and sound and matter that the real world hid behind. Walkers in a dream of death, that's what they were, and the dreamer was the girl, this Girl from Nowhere. The world was a dream and she was dreaming them!”

“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”

“Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.”

“Just ten minutes, but everything was different now. He was different, the world was different. His father was nowhere in it. And with that, tears came to his eyes.”

“He still had the young person’s predisposition to regard the world as a series of vaguely irritating problems created by people less cool and smart than he was.”