“That kind of walk is nice when it happens, but I'll take four minutes now and then over being butt-stapled to a chair all day long.”

“It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.”

“She's four minutes late, which doesn't seem like all that much when you think about it's a commercial break, the period within classes, the time it takes to cook a microwave meal. Four minutes is nothing.”

“I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?”

“What happened to you?”Jace looked affronted. “What happened to me?”Alec shook him, not lightly. “You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?”“A long one?” Jace suggested.”

“There had been a problem in Bean's house. The problem was staples. Bean loved staples. She loved them so much that she had stapled things that weren't supposed to be stapled. The things looked better stapled, but her mother didn't think so, and now Bean was outside.She was going to be outside for a long time.”