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

“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.”

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

“Do you ever miss anything?'Perry smiled. 'You, all the time.”

“Will you stay? I think I'd sleep better if you stayed here tonight. Then we could miss them together.”

“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.”

“She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She'd seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock.”