- Denise Ward: I had everything a girl could want.
- Empyrian: What DID you want? The admiration of men, the envy of women. Are those lovely goals or are they just the hungers of the heart incapable of an honest feeling for another human being?
- Arjay Beasley: I don't like this, and I don't stand for anything I don't like. Nothing's fun when it's this real! Nothing in life!
- Sue Ann Beasley: You got awful big feet, you know. Most big men do.
- Arjay Beasley: Come on, lady, before I get too busy to notice you. Let's go have a look at that universe.
- Empyrian: The final facets of conversion have been completed, achievement accomplished without noticeable modifications. Humans still see ship as amusement park ride. Human subjects meeting required specifications have been psycho-organized into area and will enter ship according to plan. Will recontact Imperia when ship is beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- Control Voice: When fear is too terrible, when reality is too agonizing, we seek escape in manufactured danger, in the thrills and pleasures of pretending, in the amusement parks of our unamusing world. Here in frantic pretending, man finds escape and temporary peace and goes home tired enough to sleep a short deep sleep, but what happens here when night comes, when pretending ends and reality begins?
- Denise Ward: For a footballer, you're all supposed to be normal, uncomplicated and transparent as glass and, uh, putty in a pretty girl's hands.