“Quit it already. I'm pretty enough as it is.”

“I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough -- just smart enough to have problems.”

“I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge.”

“I've had quite enough danger for a while I think. I might have some more when I'm thirteen, but definitely not before then...”

“In fact," Slad was saying, "that was a night of firsts for me. I'm pretty sure I had sex with her too.""Pretty sure?""Like I said, it was a night of firsts. I'm not sure I actually made it to her vagina. It's quite possible I had sex with the air around her vagina." He gestured in wild circles. "But I still count it.”

“Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops down beside him. How many times, he wonders, can she have enough of him, already, and still have not quite enough?”