“Tez always had warm feelings about paradoxes. It was the scientist in her.”

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”

“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

“Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.”

“Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.”

“I am always deeply suspicious of received wisdom. As far as I am concerned man-made global warming is nothing more than a hypothesis that hasn't got any basis in fact. Every day more scientists are modifying their initial views. Recently 60 German scientists wrote to Chancellor Angela Merkel saying there was no proof for carbon causing global warming.”

“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

“Is the reader feeling confused about the status of the black hole information paradox and black holes in general? So am I!”

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”

“She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.”