Brady

"Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. 'No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.'"

“Maybe they were just curious to observe the chemistry between two people who, over the course of several years, apparently could not leave one another alone.”

"If you don't ask, you can keep your head buried in the sand."

”This, I learned, was how the ministry received the power of time-travel. Not through invention, but through the fine British tradition of finders keepers.”

"You poked it with a stick?"

"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”