"“You’re just doing that to pass the time,” said Davide, dismissively. “Just to pass the time,” agreed Jac. “Though I …"

"Jack considered: there were worse things that could happen than him dying. Of course, there were much better things, …"

"What’s inside the box? Doubt is there. What’s another name for doubt? Death is another name for doubt. Death is what …"

"His last hours alive. But he didn’t know! None of us will know, of course. The weird grammar of death. You die, he or…"

"As far as dreams were concerned—well dreams are generated by the random processes of neural oscillation during the br…"

"She had expected to encounter death as a kind of existential depth and had been disappointed. But maybe there was a d…"

"People-problems did not interest her. Data seemed to her a larger, purer, more transcendent quantity than Homo sapien…"

"The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and …"

"She didn’t have to believe the technology existed. She only had to believe that people believed the technology existe…"

"“The situation on, on earth is complicated.” “You mean politics?” Dakkar spat the word, with immeasurable contempt."