“It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.”

“I realize the selfishness of children. We love them, and we revolve around their universe, but they don't revolve around ours.”

“Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.”

“And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye.Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!''She looks all right,' he said.”

“She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.”

“I swear every word this guy says, every tiny little thing this guy does has the power to send me straight to heaven or straight to hell.It's like my whole universe is starting to revolve around Ôtani.”