"I'm psychologically equipped for this."
- A. Ashley Straker
"...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space."
"You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house - who looks and sounds exactly like Amy - is not in fact your daughter. Is this correct? I..."
"Simon stopped listening. He realised he'd had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in pe..."
"She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor."
"Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function."
"Fear is quite the anaesthetic"
"His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey."
"Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people."
"For a moment, Simon's sympathetic nervous system forgot he was arachnophobic. The sight of those spindly legs rising, like an ink drawing popping out of paper into three-dimensional space, should have..."