“Running into a burning building probably wasn't the smartest move Kenton Lake had ever made. Then again, sadly, it wasn't his dumbest either.”
“You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either.”
“Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either.”
“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
“He wasn't running," said Bruno, "and he wasn't crawling. He went struggling along like a portmanteau. And he held his chin ever so high in the air—”
“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”