"Killeen grinned broadly. - C'mon, son, this is what we were born to do. We'll go onward. Inward. There's all our Family's past here, somewhere We'll find out what happened, who we are.--" Prologue, page 6

" [Quath] 'Must've caught them from your rotten carcass. What's that about a mountain?' [Toby] 'Some mountain. More like a stink-hole, I'd say. And you're the one looks like a giant maggot."' Part I, Chapter 2, pg. 22

"I AM A BOMB. I AM SET TO EXPLODE IN THREE HUNDRED TIME INTERVALS. *BEEP* THIS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A TIME INTERVAL. THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED NINETY-NINE TO GO. I AM A BOMB. I AM SET TO EXPLODE IN THREE HUNDRED TIME INTERVALS. *BEEP* THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT TIME INTERVALS TO GO." Part I Chapter 4, pg. 43

"Quath stopped and waved two feelers at him but said nothing but < [untranslatable]>. Maybe that was an...