He could almost feel someone probing the past, finding their way slowly toward him, stalking him. At any moment the air could shimmer beside the table and an assassin appear, a gun raised, ready to execute him. It was something Kramer constantly feared. The recurring nightmare had troubled him almost every for the last fifteen years-awaking in his bed in the dark stillness of night to see an assassin leaning leaning over him and announcing his immediate execution for traveling through time.
     A soft voice whispered quietly in his head.
     There is a way out for you, you know.
     Suicide?
     No, another way.

     The reason I chose this passage is because it is the turning point of the book. It is where Kramer( the villian) goes insane. He went back in time to rule over the world so that in the future the world would not be populated by mass cities overrun by starving people choking on greenhouse gasses. It started as a noble quest to save humanity. Then the voices appeared and paranoia set in. Amazed at the simplicity of it all, the poor man was driven mad and his once brilliant mind alight with sizzling neon tubes and yellow electric bulbs, blinked out and he fell into madness.

     Liam braced himself against the gradually steepening angle of the floor, holding on to the door frame of the cabin beside him. The chief steward's instructions had been clear to ensure every cabin at this end of the deck was empty before coming up and joining him.
     He wasn't sure he wanted to; the screaming and wailing of women and children that he could hear coming down the stairwell from above sounded shrill and terrifying. At least here on deck E, amid second-class cabins, there was an eerie sense of peace. Not quite silent, though. Far away, he could hear the deep rumble and knew it was the sound of the freezing ocean cascading into the stricken stricken ship, roaring through open bulkheads, gradually pulling her down.

     I really like this short little passage, because it not only describes peace in panic, but also sense of honor in doom. Now this is an account of the titanic sinking, however Liam does not seem panicked or under deres at all. He actually seems calm, he also does not want to go to the evac deck, he would rather stay behind and look for any straggling people. The book says its because he wants avoid the panicking women and children, this, to me, strikes a certain hero cord. My prediction is that these character traits will play a big role in the story to come.