"The first step is the hardest: the light, the noise … the agony."
"Hoc sacrificium quaeso suscipe, Iktha."
"Iktha’s realm is outside history, its might transcends the cyclical. In the realm of Iktha, all life is one life, all deaths immutable."
"When a void beyond time is opened, you expect the world to remonstrate. The world—the physical world, that is—will be devastated. You imagine chaos. Flies and locusts."
"In turning to the stars, we had sought power, to conquer and colonise the known universe. If only we had known what was waiting."
"Magushalak calls to us from the void. Its smell is pungent, suffocating."