“ 'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society”
“Just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills-people story...”
“He was shorter than an average eight-year-old boy but exceptionally tall for a tulip.”
“Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.”
“I have acute pancreatitis.""I thought it was just average looking.”
“I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.”