“What about a hoverboard?""It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?”

“So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris”

“Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.”

“Never bored on a hoverboard.”

“But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.”

“Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.”

“Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.”