"Less than total control is no control at all. You will obey my instructions, Mr. Ravel. In every detail. Or I will scrap the project."

“Rules had been made, and even enforced from time to time. When the first absolute prohibition of time meddling came along, it was already far too late.”

“An idea was beginning to get through, and he wasn’t liking it very well.”

“Yours is not to reason why, eh? I guess you’re lucky at that. It’s not dying that hurts—it’s living.”

“The Karg looked at her with the interested expression of a coroner who sees his customer twitch.”

“It was a nasty little village, poverty-stricken, ugly, hostile, much like little towns in all times and climes.”

“Too late, I realized how I had trapped myself. I had let sleep in as a guest, and death had slipped through the door.”