“Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life.”

“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”

“If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.”

“Aw, hell, Tessa. I was in ninth grade. By the time I got to the part where I imagined a girl without panties on, it was all over.”

“Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in the shape of hot dogs, ice-cream stands in the shape of ice-cream cones. There are obvious examples of virtual sameness trying, by dint of exhibitionism, to appear unique and different from their similar commercial neighbors.”

“Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We’d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward.”