“We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth.'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimæra. Probably your mom.”

“If Mark really had managed to acquire some information about the Mogodorians, and if doing so had gotten him into some kind of trouble, then we needed to help him”

“They have him,' Marina hisses, pointing into the dark. 'They have his body and I'm not letting them keep it.”

“If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”

“You lose track of time when you're deep in conservation with an otherworldly being made of pure Loric energy.”

“I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.”

“You are not responsible for the murderous rampage of an alien psycho, okay?”

“Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.”

“We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in the past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret.Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.”

“Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.”

“I imagine the future and I smile grimly. There's only one way to make that happen. It's time to fight”