“I hope thou shalt never retreat beneath the ground. The sun is thy inheritance. The sky is thy birthright. Stay here, my boy, and with the conversation of mankind. rejoice in the light.”

“We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security”

“I looked over at her face. I could see the light from my heartbeat on her tears.”

“I have this weird, bad feeling," said another boy. "In my feeling parts. Like something bad is going to happen.”

“I believe,' said Marcus Furius, 'that an order of male virgins who never see the light of day would be ideal for the operation of a computing machine such as this.”

“I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.”

“it's like a squid in love with the sky.”