- [first lines]
- Rollie Crane: [wearing mask] Mwah, ha, ha, ha, ha! From all of us down here on Terra Firma, we'd like to wish you folks a little nearer the spirit world, a happy Halloween.
- Maddux Donner: Every astronaut knows the rules of the jungle. Limping antelope don't go into space. They stay on Earth, where they're killed and eaten.
- Zoe Barnes: I'm worse than a freak. I'm a pathetic, recently spayed, wannabe astronaut, condemned to the barren existence of a space nun.
- Maddux Donner: Being vulnerable leads to being dinner in a Darwinian world. But there's also the risk of hubris, of not knowing your own limits. And that may be the biggest danger of all.