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"Shadow vessels. They were sighted in sector 800 two days ago. Seems they're
 gathering, creating a border on the edge of the Centauri space."
        -- A ranger to Marcus, "Exogenesis"
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"Listen, now that you have been promoted, I was thinking. We spend a lot of
 time up here together, but we never really get a chance to talk. So I was
 thinking maybe we could get together and talk about what you see yourself
 doing down the road, just .. you know, get to know each other a bit better."
"Well. Ah. Sure. We could, .. I don't know, meet in the mess hall for
 breakfast ?"
"No, you can't have a private conversation up there. The dishes cluttering,
 people talking.. So, why don't you come by my quarters later in the day and
 we can have a cup of coffee. Real coffee. Just don't ask me where I got it."
        -- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin, "Exogenesis"
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"Hi! Something I can help you with ?"
"I don't know, I was thinking .. flowers."
"Thinking flowers is good, giving flowers is better. What's the occasion ?"
"I'm not sure, but I think I have a date."
"She asked you out ?"
"She asked me *in*, her place."
"Works fast. Is she agressive ?"
"You could say that."
"Hah. Lucky guy."
"It's not like that. Well, it's not like that *yet*. .. I think."
        -- Flower salesman and David Corwin, "Exogenesis"
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"There are three of them with guns against two of us with *nothing*.
 They'll gun us down before we get half across the room."
"All we need is one of them to leave the room. Then there will be
 only one man with the gun."
"Excuse me, where I come from, one man from three leaves two."
"Where I come from is far more interesting place."
        -- Franklin and Marcus, "Exogenesis"
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"I sense in her a key, as yet unturned."
"And what exactly does that mean ?"
"I don't know. But I should think it would be *fascinating* to find out."
        -- Marcus and Franklin, "Exogenesis"
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"You see that tube on the corner of the table there ? That's a medical
 scanner, the Copeland J5000, very advanced. I was bringing it to him.
 You need to get it to him immediately. I know, I know, why should you
 believe me, it could be a weapon or something. Check it out yourself.
 Just look at the open end, yeah, then shake, shake it twice firmly to
 activate the scanner."
        -- Marcus, "Exogenesis"
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"It says we were created half a million years ago. Bred to be living records
 of all those we have seen and touched. For all that time we have travelled
 through the galaxy in our host bodies. We have seen double sunset on worlds
 so far away you have no name for them. We remember music that was played
 before your kind learnt to speak. Within us is the living memory, deeds and
 stories, civilizations and passions, wars and struggle, great beauty. But in
 time even we die, unless we find shelter within other living beings. So, we
 seek out those who have nothing to look forward to, those whose lives are at
 an end, those who know they will be never more than they are now, those who
 will never know beauty, or peace, or purpose and we give them that. Through
 us they are born to a new life."
        -- Vindrizi to Marcus and Franklin, "Exogenesis"
