- The Middleman: The Palindrome has the power to open a mini black hole!
- Wendy Watson: Like the kind that eats socks in the dryer?
- Wendy Watson: You're telling me that you, Pip, a priest, are willing to risk your life for me?
- Pip: We're all children of the Lord.
- Wendy Watson: I'm in the mirror universe.
- Pip: I'm sorry - mirror? Universe?
- Wendy Watson: A parallel universe where everyone who's good is evil and evil is good. It's like that episode of Star Trek where Spock had a goatee, and Chekhov tried to...
- Pip: Star Trek? You mean the sci-fi series from the '60s starring the great George Takei?
- Wendy Watson: It is an evil universe.