God doesn’t need to punish us. We can do that for ourselves. That’s why we need forgiveness.
-- Narrator (One: Watery Star)

Importance: The need to forgive one’s self and others is a major theme in this novel. Shep introduces this theme as he thinks about his preacher’s belief that God does not punish people, only offers them forgiveness. He believes that God does not need to punish people because they punish themselves enough for the things that they have done wrong it their lives.

The truth is, Cameron, that I think Mimi is having an affair. And I want to catch her at it. You know why they call it a webcam?
-- Leo (One: Spider in the Cup)

Importance: When Leo tells Cameron that he wants to catch Mimi and Xeno cheating on him, he compares the webcam to a sort of spider’s web that he hopes to use to catch his wife and best friend, whom...