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1 " My name is Kane," he said finally, "and I am the youngest member ever to be inducted into the secret organization known as the Watchers. This," he gestured to the hall around them, "is what we call the Commuter Station. It is the second basement of the Watcher Castle." "Watchers?" said Lily. "What are you watching for?" Kane's mouth stretched into a bitter, tight-lipped smile and his eyes narrowed in Peter's direction. "Him. "

― C.A. Gray , Intangible (Piercing the Veil, #1)

2 " Polly Jefferson rolled off her left arm, which had gone numb from the full weight of her body for the previous several hours that she had been asleep. She tapped her fingers on her leg, feeling the pins and needles, and looked at the clock, which blinked 6:30 in lurid red LCD. Instinctively she craned her head towards the other side of the bed, but she knew already what she would find there. The sheets were rumpled but empty and cold, and her husband’s briefcase, which had been leaning against the dresser the night before, was gone. He had already left for London. "

― C.A. Gray , Intangible (Piercing the Veil, #1)

3 " One thing I had to give Liam: he never seemed to get that self-complacent air that most attractive men get when they find themselves admired. I’m not sure he even noticed. “But there might be one thing we can do as a potential safeguard, just in case Halpert’s challenge is answered…” Liam went on, as if the interruption hadn’t happened. “Program them with a moral code. "

― C.A. Gray , Uncanny Valley (Uncanny Valley, #1)

4 " Evil has a way of cheating even its friends. "

― C.A. Gray , Invincible (Piercing the Veil, #2)

5 " You might have the power to suggest ideas to me, but you don’t have the power to make me accept them." -- Jackson "

― C.A. Gray , The Phoenix Project (The Liberty Box, #3)

6 " Emotions make great servants, but terrible masters.” - Kate "

― C.A. Gray , The Phoenix Project (The Liberty Box, #3)

7 " Ideas are the seeds of all things." -- Isdemus "

― C.A. Gray , Intangible (Piercing the Veil, #1)

8 " Love is a human emotion. It requires dopamine and a limbic system, and perhaps salheptonin— "

― C.A. Gray , Uncanny Valley (Uncanny Valley, #1)

9 " In that case, although your idea about connecting mirror neurons and the limbic system would be nice, so we’d at least have empathic superbots… what we’d really need to do is figure out how to restrict free will. That way they can’t override their programming if they don’t happen to like it.”  I gave a short "

― C.A. Gray , Uncanny Valley (Uncanny Valley, #1)

10 " Yet people see only what they expect to see, and will search for evidence to support what they already believe. It is a rare person indeed who is humble enough to admit that he has been wrong. "

― C.A. Gray , Intangible (Piercing the Veil, #1)

11 " The Watchers have been protecting you to the best of our ability all your life, and have been watching for your birth for approximately 1500 years." Then he added pleasantly, "Would you like some cocoa? "

― C.A. Gray , Intangible (Piercing the Veil, #1)

12 " Kane pulled a key from a piece of thread around his neck that looked just like the skeleton key Gerald had given Peter the night before, and slid it into the keyhole. "Welcome," said Kane dramatically, as he pushed the doors open, "to the complete and secret history of the Watchers. "

― C.A. Gray , Intangible (Piercing the Veil, #1)

13 " You don't know what it's been like all these years, seeing things that are invisible to everybody else. I knew I wasn't crazy, I knew it, but the rest of the world thought I was, and after a while even I started to wonder, you know? "

― C.A. Gray , Intangible (Piercing the Veil, #1)