“Precision of language, Jonah.”

“Let's hope it doesn't come to that," Ian put in. "Just fridge yourselves, as Jonah says.""Dude," Dan said. "Do you mean chill?""Precisely. Just what I said.”

“English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.”

“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.”

“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”

“The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.”