How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing! You could stretch a day to three days, sure, just by watching! (21.65)
Anyone who's ever waited for birthdays or holidays can relate to this one. It's the same sentiment as the old saying a watched pot never boils, and is an interesting launching pad for thinking about the fluidity and subjective nature of time.
Quote #8
Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and useless as chess pieces. And now they were tampering with something more intangible—the memory; they were trying to cut the wires which led back to another year. (25.45)
Was Colonel Freeleigh just a torso? This passage might be the second-creepiest thing in the book after Elizabeth Ramsell's murder.
Quote #9
Somewhere, a book said once, all the talk ever talked, all the songs ever sung, still lived, had vibrated way out in space and if you could travel to Far Centauri you could hear George Washington talking in his sleep or Caesar surprised at the knife in his back. (27.13)
If you think this is cool, do a web search for NASA's audio recordings from the rings of Saturn. You'll sleep with the lights on. (Yeah, we're all about the creepy here.)