I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities.

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.