“I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.”

“If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.”

“Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside a dryer with the clothes,” Clary said. “The difference is, she didn’t let me.”“Probably because going around and around in a dryer can be fatal,” Jace pointed out, “whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.”

“I like to see cats tumble around, but I wish they wouldn’t meow so much when I shove them in the dryer.”

“It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after first burying the money under a bush.”

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”