“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”

“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”

“God damn it," Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. "Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.”

“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”

“I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.”

“Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.”

“Is it a shark made of ice?" Hanoen asked. "Or a shark that lives in ice?”