"Junk does that. Junk is a forge. You enter the fire and come out twisted."

“She’s got space. Lots of space in her house. What about in her heart?”

“The girl with her face. A Devolved Entity Manifested from the Other Now? A demon that wants to off her? It’s like the rumors of concentration camps. So weird she can’t believe it, and so plausible she can’t afford to disbelieve it.”

“You are either the man in the white coat or you are the monkey. Susan sees herself as the monkey.”

“Consider impact before you consider benefit.”

“Since they were little, wishing on the first star of the evening, they both understood this: the most exciting game in life is to invent yourself.”

“By the time people could speak about mandatory population control in a rational way, it was too late.”