"Finally he said it, one word: 'Protons.' I had heard people say 'amen' in that tone of voice" (p. 3).

"My dad remembers exactly what he was doing the moment he heard that Elvis died. For my mother, it was Princess Di. It will be that way with me and the proton" (p. 7).

"As usual, Mi-Su and I went on with the game, but something was different. The squares on the board seemed to float under my little silver top hat. BT had done Dead Man's Hill, and Mi-Su knew something I didn't, and the proton was dead" (p. 24).

"Funny thing, nobody questioned whether it was true or not. Nobody said maybe BT made the whole thing up. Everybody knows BT doesn't lie. If you don't care about consequences, about anything, you don't have to lie. And it's not like he did Dead Man's Hill for the Glory...