“The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.”
“There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.”
“For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawlAbout a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball”
“it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.”
“The eel's pause gave Kim far too long to weigh how incredibly stupid this impulse was-- as if the tattoo covering his wrist weren't reminder enough of how irrevocable some rash ideas could be.”
“Naked guy think Hulk stupid?”