Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail.

You think I need to be rescued?" "I think it doesn't hurt to let someone else do the rescuing every now and then, when your own armor starts to get banged up.

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

"You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother."

A cat’s body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying,” Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. “You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission.” Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.