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

“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.”

“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.”

“Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away.”