“Normally Felicity liked to spend her recess holding the duty teacher's hand and tattling on kids who were breaking nitpicky safety rules like no climbing fences, no running up the slide, and no using the teeter-totter as a human catapult. - Zombiekins”

“Normally, he liked boundaries. Boundaries were the safety net. Boundaries kept people on the right path. But right now, he felt like rules were made to be broken and consequences were miles and miles away.”

“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.”

“No, see the slide’s too high. He could fall and get a concussion. (Wulf)Forget that. He could rack himself on the teeter-totter. (Chris)Teeter-totter nothing. The swings are a choking hazard. Whose idea was it for him to have this? (Urian)”

“They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures”

“They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.”