“How do you restart something that had never been turned off?”

“There are other things I'd rather do when I'm alone with you." Time to step off the edge. "Then do them.”

“Listen closely...this is the most important thing you need to know while you're here. Do not eat the haddock. They've been overcooking it terribly.”

“We lose and lose, but we're still here. Shaking in place, afraid of doing something. I'm tired of settling for this because I don't know if something better exists. It has to. What point is there otherwise? I can do something about it now. And I will.”

“It was a message from her. A reminder—here among hundreds of people—of a moment that had been theirs alone.”

“The boy who was taken," she said. "Is he your son?""How old do you think I am, Dweller?""I'm a little shaky on the fossil record, but I'd say fifty to sixty thousand years.""Eighteen. And no. He's not my son.”

“A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.”