“They were an odd pair- but odd pairs were what kept life interesting.”
“Shane was born perfectly fine, despite the same genetic pairing. One in four.That's what their odds were. God gave Shelby SMA. Shane just got "gay".”
“The odds against this were tremendous, but Edith was not interested in the odds; people who thought about odds were unheroic and would never achieve anything. 20”
“In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?""Try a brick wall.”
“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
“... and my brain put them together in that way brains sometimes do: pairing the ideas that shouldn't be paired, yet nonetheless were.”