"'It's not just breasts,' said Homarnoch, the Family surgeon. 'Sorry, Lanik. It's ovaries. For life.'" Page 13.

""Then I put the arrow that had struck my shoulder into her hand, to give her power in the next world, though I doubted privately that there was such a thing." Page 34.

"I gave her grief, letting the blood drip from my hand onto her face." Page 34.

"Behind it was the bitterest desert in the world." Page 115.

"'My God,' said the captain, "'what are those bastards doing to prisoners these days?" page 104.

"Singer had a thriving business. In human flesh." Page 104.

"A strange people, at once cruel and kind, strong and weak, and so quick to change from one extreme to the other that I could not predict what they would do." Page 107.

"'From the inside,' the man answered, beaming. 'We only work from the inside. Do you...