“There's a phrase over the door; she called to him. "Haec est porta coeli."..."Here is the gate to heaven.”
“A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!”
“Emptiness gnawed at Emma. Could she> face death without fear? If she were to show up at heaven's door tomorrow, would God even recognize her, when it had been so long since she'd bothered to call on Him?”
“I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.”
“Tyler rounded the hood and opened the door. 'What?' he asked when she grinned at him. 'You've got a slide-over-here-honey seat!' His eyes crinkled with laughter. 'Well, what are you doing all the way over there?”
“It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.”