"... the biggest risk to the British Isles from climate change would be from flooding this side of the end of the century."

"How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their gray-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little hurrying feet! There were endless desperate swarms…"

"At the base of the plane, Styles freelance photographer is down on one knee, going handheld, still in the same Hawaiian shirt. The famously reclusive R. Vaughn Corliss is nowhere in view. Doug Llewell…"

"True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes."

"The history of most fictions would be far stranger than the fictions themselves ; but it would be a dark and sad chronicle."