“Told you not to tell her.”“That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.”“Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.”“Blow me.”

“We know how ninety-nine percent of the universe works," he told Carter shortly after they met, "and that's the clockworks, that's what we build with. But the other one percent makes the clockworks wind down. That's inertia. No one knows how that works, but it does. It's that one percent mystery that's the way of our maker. Put everything together, energy and inertia, the explicable and the inexplicable, and that's how you and I make our living.”

“She wrote me a letter (Joan,1941) asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did”

“All I can tell you is to have the relationship that's good for you.”

“Man to God: "I've let you down so many times."God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I uphold you with My righteous right hand. That's how it works in this relationship. I - hold - you - up.”

“Lilianna: Ask me again later.Tate: Okay Lil'Miss. Magic 8 Ball.Lilianna: Really, ask me again in a few weeks. I'll have a better read on the relationship in the present tense then.Tate: You'll have a better read on the present in the future. Yeah, I think that's called History class.”