"'You're not going into the city to, uh, do something, are you?'"
Ch. 1, Pg. 10
Betty Callahan to Nita as she and Kit prepare to go to the Hayden Planetarium, still trying to get used to the idea that her daughter and her best friend are both novice wizards.

"'I want to go where they came from!'"
Ch. 4, Pg. 32
Dairine to computer after discovering a marker beacon on Olympus Mons.

"'It's the only story.... every sentient species has it or learns it.'"
Ch. 5, Pg. 45
Tom's response to Nita's mother who talks about entropy and how it is an old and familiar story based on the Lone Power and his creation of the longest death - the death of the universe.

"'Even saints have to start somewhere.... and it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in...