“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”

“Mother always said he was like a lake, calm on the surface though a powerful current rumbled beneath. Tristan, meanwhile, was the ocean—his feelings frothed and foamed on the surface, crashing like waves into every situation.”

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”

“So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to cut whites and Hispanics into the action, among activists disappointed with his failure to tackle poverty head-on, and among people who preferred the dream to the reality, impotence to compromise.”

“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.”

“I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.”