Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

I love you above all things, even pie.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems.

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.