- Zia: "I'll see if I can borrow the university's scanning tunnelling picokalilograscope this week to study the portal." "Hopefully they won't mind too much."
- Chloe: "What the heck is that?" Zia: "A fifty-million-dollar gizmo the size of a farm tractor." "It measures the spin and chromography of aleph neutrinos."
- They stop in front of the portal. Chloe stares at Zia. Chloe. Zia. Portal.
- Chloe: "I miss the days when your only crazy words were 'Kardashian' and 'liposuction.'" Zia: "If it helps, I still subscribe to 'People' magazine and 'Us Weekly'!"
Characters: Chloe, Portal, Zia
Anybody else get the feeling Zia actually subscribes to the National Enquirer?
— Inker