"People quite often thought Marcus was being funny when he wasn't" (Chapter 1, pg. 7.)

"How cool was Will Freeman?" (Chapter 2, pg. 13.)

"He just wasn't right for schools. Not secondary schools, anyway" (Chapter 3, pg. 23.)

"But this was the scariest thing he'd ever seen, by a million miles, and he knew the moment he walked in that it was something he'd have to think about forever" (Chapter 9, pg. 94.)

"Filling days had never really been a problem for Will. He may not have been proud of his lifelong lack of achievement, but he was proud of his ability to stay afloat in the enormous ocean of time he had at his disposal; a less resourceful man, he felt, might have gone under and drowned" (Chapter 12, pg. 114.)

"He was one of life's visitors; he didn't want to be visited" (Chapter 14, pg. 149.)

"It shut her up, and it made her cry. It did the...