“He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.”

“He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.”

“He's so unlucky it's almost lucky," Gren said. "It's like he has reverse luck.""He's reverse good-looking, too" said Hyde."I'm going to reverse punch you," Strag said to his brother."That was reverse smart, man. It means you're going to punch yourself.”

“If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.”

“At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth.""What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?""He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.”

“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”