"Eight months earlier, the First Speaker had viewed those same crowding stars - nowhere as crowded as in the central regions of that huge cluster of matter Man calls the Galaxy - with misgivings; but now there was a somber satisfaction on the round ruddy face of Preem Palver - First Speaker."

"He left them, never looking back."

"'I still have things to do.'"

"Baley, suddenly smiling, took R. Daneel's elbow, and they walked out the door, arm in arm."

"Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them."

"The flowers formed a wavering garland around the coffin as it began its long journey to the estuary of the Yangtze, only to be swept back by the incoming tide among the quays and mud-flats, driven once again to the shores of this terrible city."

"When we reach the city."

"The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water...."

"I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

"For the God of Path is Gloriously Bright."

"Only the mothertree remained in the middle of the clearing, bathed in light, heavy with fruit, festooned with blossoms, a perpetual celebrant of the ancient mystery of life."

"'I see it - coming here - hell-wind - titan blur - black wings - Yog-Sothoth save me - the three-lobed burning eye...'"