“Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb.”

“Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.”

“quantum reality, and finding itself emerging in a continuum it had no prior conception of: an energistic vacuum”

“...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.”

“You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”

“How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”

“The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.”