Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.

I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.

Were not there you, I'd be not too.

Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.

Get back on the bike and tell me where to go." "I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.

I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She‘s on the floor, you‘re towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I‘ll kill him.