"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."

How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.