“The other day I went to the Huddle House. I wasn’t hungry, I just wanted to call some plays.”

“Want to play some Battleship?”I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there.Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.”

“I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.”

“But no matter where I went, what I was running from would still be with me—Kat. She wasn’t just back in the house, in that bed. She was with me now, inside me. And there was no outrunning that.”

“I went into physics to hang around with the bright kids. I wasn’t doing anything else and I didn’t want to look dumb, so I thought I’d pretend to be a physicist, just like the others. It was five or ten years after my Ph.D. before I realized I was pretty good.”

“Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.”