"“It’s just that you’re about to do something out of the ordinary… “I suppose you’re right.” “Right. And after you do …"

"Judging from the spiderwebs clinging to it, the emergency stairway was hardly ever used. To each web clung a small bl…"

"I move, therefore I am."

"It was her personal view that people who are overly choosy about the drinks they order in a bar tend to be sexually b…"

"A butterfly came fluttering along and landed on the shoulder of her blue work shirt. It was a small, white butterfly …"

"She only felt revulsion for any kind of religious fundamentalists. The very thought of such people’s intolerant world…"

"“Fukada was supposedly looking for a utopia in the Takashima system,” the Professor said with a frown. “But utopias d…"

"Mathematics gave Tengo an effective means of retreat. By fleeing into a world of numerical expression, he was able to…"

"Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to th…"

"This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: “At the time, no one knew what was coming.”"