I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Going outside is highly overrated.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.