“Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!”

“Religion is somewhere between fear and sex. And God? Truly? In his own right, without our voices speaking for him? Obsessed I think, but not passionate.”

“Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.”

“I think he’s very good and very blessed to be operating behind those five guys. That’s the big problem, having to sort through those five big guys to find where he is. When they all come off at one time they look like a herd of water buffalo stampeding at you and there’s a gazelle somewhere in behind them. He’s also very persistent and you can see how strong he is.”

“Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me?”

“Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go”

“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.”

“Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.”

“What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!'
With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.”

“War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan.”