“A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it.”
“People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.”
“Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so faithfully carried.”
“If you get stuck to the committed path then...this wall has to be..KNOCKED DOWN!!”
“the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat”
“Beautiful,' Jason exclaimed. 'Piper, you... you're a knockout.”