"Before you, the strongest feeling I knew was fear." (Yod, twenty-two: THE PRESENT) — Marge Piercy

He's in Veecee Beecee, making those elaborate worlds people play at living in instead of worrying about the one we're all stuck with." (one: IN THE CORPORATE FORTRESS)

"They perceive whatever they don't control as hostile." (Avram, twenty-five: WHERE THE ELITE MEET)

For years she had had this magic circle they could weave about themselves, luminous with Gadi's imagination, the place where she could never be lonely or bored. In that private world of play more intense, far more real than reality, she was whatever she longed for. (five: FIFTEEN YEARS BEFORE: THE DAY OF ALEF)