"What he was looking at was the face of Laura DeLoessian in profile... No, not just resemblance, she was his mother. Jack knew it" (Chapter 7, p. 131).

"But for some reason, equally difficult to translate from emotion into language, the conjunction of Morgan Sloat and the Day-dreams made the boy uneasy" (Chapter 11, p. 193).

"I believe a three-week squabble over there in some way sparked off a war here that lasted six years and killed millions of people" (Chapter 11, p. 197).

"Only that wasn't happening to Wolf. He hated the cars, he hated the smells, he hated this world. Jack didn't think he was ever going to get used to it. If he didn't get Wolf back to the Territories fairly soon, Jack thought he might go crazy" (Chapter 18, p. 291).

"'Him,' Wolf said. 'He kills, Jacky. With whips. This is one of his places. No Wolf should ever be in...