“Dont do anything stupid.""Dont worry," I whispered over the line, "Im an expert on stupid.""Youre...""Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs reall...”

“I wasnt a nerd, mind you, but Id spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so Id had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint...”

“My name is David Charleston.I kill people with super powers.”

“My life wasnt just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.”

“If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.”

“As shed left, Id glanced at her gun.This time, when shed pointed it at me, shed flicked the safety on. If that wasnt true love, I dont know what was.”

“Freedom from fear's consuming control over us hinges upon our honestly dealing with what our overwhelming fears are specifically about and then coming to terms with those tedious, often emotionally...”

“...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...”

“Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistibl...”

“The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.”

“Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qualities which represent the objective side of his *ordo amoris*, values which have not yet been sh...”

“I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.”

“I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic--there's a group of people in this world that don't like conflict and care about what o...”

“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”

“He caught a glimpse of himself in the rear-view mirror, but instead of the handsome, successful, owner of a billion-dollar corporation, he saw the remnants of the unpopular, socially-awkward, Magic...”