"Rayford knew the prophecy - that people would reject God enough times that God would harden their hearts and they wouldn't be able to choose him even if they wanted to. But knowing it didn't mean Rayford understood it" (Chapter 1).

"As many of you may know - and if this is news to you, I expect full confidentiality - Al Hillah is the location of our vast storehouse of nuclear weaponry, voluntarily surrendered to us by the rest of the world as a condition of my accepting my position" (Chapter 3).

"Well, you can play high-and-mighty all you want, Mom, but I'd think you'd be open to hearing me out when the benefit to you deals with your own child" (Chapter 40).

"If I were to bear the mark of the one to whom I am loyal, it would have to be the number 1" (Chapter 6).

"Chang stepped back, looked up...