“It was funny how you could go somewhere and your whole life could stretch out and then you could come home and have it all shrink back to the way it was before. It was funny that it didn’t stay stretched.”

“That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you.”

“It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.”

“It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in aninstant, how oneminute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not”

“If you want to stay, I can meet you after the scrimmage. You could come to my house or I could come to yours or we could meet at the library or a coffee shop or..."Stop talking, asshole."Or we could go somewhere with Wi-Fi or somewhere outside or..."Oh my God, I hate myself right now.”

“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”