From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear. "I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor