“What happens in the band room stays in the band room.”

“Wat happens in the band room stays in the band room”

“Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.”

“As the staggered lines rushed past him, the space between what we predict and what will happen. And in that space, Colin thought, there was room enough to reinvent himself.”

“But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness”

“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

“You simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”