“If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.”

“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.”

“The ancient owls' nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,
a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down”

“The day will come when the two-state solution collapses and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights. As soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished. The Jewish organizations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us, because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents.”

“The chain of causes comes down from the creation of the world.”
A prima descendit origine mundi causarum series.

“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are youabout?" said Lief.
"Life and death.”

“Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.”

“The flies go up the window,
They've nothing else to do,
They go up in their hundreds
And they come down two by two.”

“Good and evil are one. Just like a coin, the head and the tail.”

“Majesty, there you see a how a person comes down in the world.”