The Reality Bug Quotes
"It's all about getting away for hours to just hang."
"I feel like Saint Dane got the better of me on First Earth."
"But everything's fine now, so you can flume off with that Gunny person and worry about some other territory. Good-bye."
"I've been trying to contact you about Saint Dane, but you haven’t been responding."
"It's going to be the most fun you've ever had."
"Lifelight was designed to create a perfect experience. A realistic experience. You can’t suddenly sprout wings and fly away. Your mind wouldn’t let you because you know that can’t really happen. You’re governed by the rules of reality. But the thing is, it’s a perfect reality."
"Having that control band on your wrist would be a constant reminder that none of this is real. You’ll only see it when you need to."
"Sometimes they die of natural causes. But it’s starting to happen more often."
"It’s a wonderful tool that has brought joy to the people of Veelox. But it’s got a downside, too."
"I’m trying to teach you about what’s happening here."
"We can’t just ‘pull the plug’ and tell everybody to go back to their normal lives, though I’m sure you wish it were that easy."
"They’re all lying safely inside the pyramid."
"He’s got fantasy on his side. But my Reality Bug is the ideal solution."
"It’s the whole territory, Pendragon. Reality on Veelox only exists to support the fantasy."
"Alex!" Aja yelled out to the phader, "Get back to the core and jam a shutdown. Get us out of here!"
"But you said Lifelight can only use reality," I shot back.
"I can’t," she finally answered. "There’s no such thing. People would die."
"I’m not like you," she went on. "I’m not some big adventurer. What I am is smart. Smarter than you."
"Give me a break," she said with tears forming again. "You’re the lead Traveler. You swoop into a territory and take on Saint Dane like some kind of fearless savior."
"It was broken from inside," he deduced. "They must have cut themselves up pretty good."
"I heard the glass break and then saw them running around."
"Mark wasn’t the type to trespass on private property . . . or so they thought."
"Let’s check inside," Officer Wilson suggested.
"Here, boy!" Wilson called out again, and whistled.
"Whatever you saw, Mark," Wilson said, "they’re gone now."
"Don’t be sorry," Wilson said. "You did the right thing. Whatever was in here got away somehow, that’s all."
"G’night kids!" and slammed the door closed, trapping the quigs in the bedroom.
"I believe," Aja said, "this is truly the way it was meant to be."
"I will hold on to your waist," she said. "Please do not lose me."
"I wasn’t sure which was worse, taking her with me, or risking the trip by myself and having to do it twice."
"If you start running out of breath, give me two quick squeezes,"
"Take some deep breaths. You’ll be able to hold your breath longer."
"That’s when I heard a strange sound. It was high-pitched, like an engine."
"I guess that’s the way," I said, pointing to the opening to the cave.
"Why must we play games? We are on a serious mission."
"The only question now was whether Loor had timed it right."
"I realized that the fate of Veelox might very well be decided on this icy racecourse."
"Come with me," she added. "You are a great man."
"It’s not that easy," the rider explained. "There are five checkpoints."
"Absolutely," the first racer said. "The main rule is: Anything goes."
"You can’t be Zetlin," I said. "Dr. Zetlin is seventy-nine years old."
"I worked on Lifelight for sixty years. It consumed me morning and night."
"I think I should be the one to race," I said to Loor.