Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows?

I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing

See you in a few. Hold down the fort, Mr. Wong!

I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.

Oh, I forgot to tell you," Cookie said. "Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for all the lonely barflies." "I'm a good singer, mom." Only a twelve-year-old could make the word mom sound blasphemous. I leaned into Cookie, "Does she know its not called--?" "No," she whispered. "Are you gonna tell her?" "No. It's much funnier this way.

You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

I meant to behave. There were just too many other options.--T-SHIRT