“Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.”

“Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.”

“Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.”

“The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk.”

“He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.”

“I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.”

“Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”