“Keep it bouncing," he'd told her once, "that's all the secret, keep it bouncing.”

“It is better to have bounced and bumped than never to have bounced at all. ”

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,I must have you!”

“You still secretly believe that there is an element of magic to this world? It's all just soulless molecules bouncing against each other randomly.”

“I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you.”

“That's enough of that," Jesse said. Next thing I knew, he'd scooped me up. Only instead of carrying me to my bed and setting me down on it all romantically, you know, like guys do to girls in the movies, he just dumped me onto it, so I bounced around and would have fallen off if I hadn't grabbed the edge of the mattress. "Thanks," I said, not quite able to keep all of the sarcasm out of my voice.”