“About time, Brianna said.Hey, sorry, we were kind of busy, Quinn snapped. And I didnt exactly realize I was on a schedule.I dont like what I have to do here, Brianna said. She handed Quinn the note...”

“It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great," Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's not even a word," Lana said."Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said.”

“Its time, Jack said.Breeze? Count the kids, Sam said.Brianna was back in twenty seconds. Eighty-two, boss.About a third, Jack observed. A third of whats left.Wait. Make that eighty-eight, Brianna s...”

“Mr. Albert? Mr. Albert? Harley said.Just Alberts fine, Albert said tersely.Me and Janice are thirsty.Im sorry, but I dont have any water on me. He managed a tight smile and moved on. But now Janice...”

“Briannas looking for Drake, Edilio said, thinking out loud.You sent her out against Drake? Albert demanded.Sent her? Who sends Brianna out to get into a fight? She goes on her own. Anyway, its not ...”

“So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?""What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you.""You're healing my little brother Bowie.""...”

“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...”

“Pleasure, sex I never did understand this but a system like the = real world has it's on glitches and bugs.”

“Hunters entire body writhed and squirmed.The side of his head was partly gone. A creature, like some monstrous melding of insect and eel, protruded from Hunters shoulder and as they stood there roo...”

“Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time. -Jordan”

“Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.”

“I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my,church, not in my home, not in my skin.”

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youre falling to the floor crying ...”

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”