“There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!”
“Lucy settled into August's kitchen as if they were a family.”
“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.”
“Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy."Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends.""But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy."It doesn’t matter.”
“Where's Lucy?" I asked the others."At the farmhouse," Nicholas said with grim satisfaction."How'd you manage that?""She's in a closet." Solange rolled her eyes.I stared at Nicholas. "You locked your girlfriend in a closet? Smooth.""She's going to eviscerate him," Quinn said cheerfully.”
“It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.”