“My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?”

“Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.”

“They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.”

“The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?"Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. "I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says.”

“Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.”

“I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said."Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!""It's from indigestion.”

“[...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head.”