“She considered hypothesis 3 to be quite unlikely, since she didn’t feel the least bit psychopathic, but included it in the list out of respect for the scientific method.”

“He could feel her doing that list thing, where she didn’t speak or look at you because she was tallying something in her head. Figuring out how bad you’d messed up.”

“At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.”

“And since Logan didn’t seem the least bit antisocial . . .“You don’t have to look like that, you know. I haven’t kicked a puppy in at least a decade.”

“... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.”

“From the perspective of a class C, an alien method is one whose behavior is not fully specified by C. This includes methods in other classes as well as overrideable methods (neither private nor final) in C itself. Passing an object to an alien method must also be considered publishing that object. Since you can’t know what code will actually be invoked, you don’t know that the alien method won’t publish the object or retain a reference to it that might later be used from another thread.”