• “Now, don’t tell me anything about this watch, Mrs. Hempstead. I’ll divine its very soul tonight. Just you wait!”
• On Ward’s Island, that was called insanity. On the radio, it was called entertainment.
• Oh, Mabel knew that she and Jericho weren’t a good match. Not really. But it stung that he hadn’t wanted her. Just once in her life, Mabel had wanted to come first. She’d wanted to be the chosen one instead of the chosen one’s reliable, unexciting best friend. A kid tried to sell her a newspaper. “No, thank you!” Mabel barked. Then she felt guilty for it and tossed him a nickel at the last minute, taking the newspaper she hadn’t even wanted in the first place. Why had she done that? Why did she feel like she had to be so good all the time?
• “Hahaha. They didn’t try to shoot me.” “Give ’em time.”
• And I said that I was going to be bigger than Einstein and Bohr put together!” Marlowe’s grin spread even wider. “Because I’m American.”
• “Marlowe Industries: The Good Life Is the American Life.”
• Sam groaned and tossed aside another book. “If I have to look through one more of these, I’m throwing myself off that balcony,” he moaned. “Let me know if you need help,” Jericho said
• “Before the Devil breaks you, first he will make you love him.
• “You should be very happy, William. You’ve finally become what you love most: From this day forward, you are a ghost to me. I don’t even see you.”
  • ouch
• “How come every time I see you folks it’s something nobody can explain but something I know is gonna cause me no end of headaches?
• Even Evie believed in something, that something being Evie a lot of the time.

this was the last one, i'm not finished reading.