"Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." (Chapter 1, p. 26)

"Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable. And he's a very good man, Charles, darling, but right now he needs our help." (Chapter 2, p. 40)

"I've never even seen your house, and I have the funniest feeling that for the first time in my life I'm going home." (Chapter 2, p. 40)

"'Maybe we weren't meant to meet before this,' Calvin said. 'I mean, I knew who you were in school and everything, but I didn't know you. But I'm glad we've met now, Meg. We're going to be friends, you know."' (Chapter 3, p. 41)

"There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me." (Chapter 3, p. 46)

"Charles...