"No," she said. "Yes! There was a whine, did you hear it? Then a flash of yellow light, a ...a shock-wave going out all around use, and then it was gone, and so was everything else! Where are we?" (Chapter 2, pg. 14)

So with this. We were over our heads in our own past, startled we had fallen in doing the best we knew in the strange place. And the best we knew was to get these two together, save them from losing the years we had lost before we knew we were soulmates. (Chapter 3, pg. 30)

"The choices are yours, more than you suspect." Leslie glanced at me. "If you never let go of what matters to you, if it matters so much that you're willing to struggle this hard to have it. I promise you'll have a very successful life. A hard life, because excellence is not easy...