- Brian Finch: Life goes by really fast. If you don't stop to look around sometimes, you could miss it.
- Brian Finch: [as narrator] Mercenaries, or contractors, or whatever these guys were, they're terrible company. Hours together in the woods and, even on NZT, I still didn't know anything useful about any of them. They wouldn't tell me their names, so I gave them nicknames to keep track of them: Guy In Charge? He's Rooney, obviously.
- Rooney: Nine times.
- Brian Finch: Nice Guy But People Tell Him What To Do? Cameron. The One Who Never Says Anything? That's Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago.
- Agent Rebecca Harris: [appearing in Brian's mind] You're not dying. You just can't think of anything good to do.
- Agent Rebecca Harris: [as Brian's apparition] Your NZT is wearing off and you need advice. I'm happy to give it. Or the version of me that lives inside of your head is happy to give it. But, Brian, I have to be honest. I wish you didn't dress me like this.
- Brian Finch: [backing away from knife] I tried to save you. I tried to keep you alive. Give me the pill... You speak English?
- Aleksey Basayev: Everyone speak some English.