"Your brother's face is one of the first you ever see. His hands are among the first to touch you. You crawl only to catch him." (Chapter 1, page 1)

"I stare at my feet. I heard someplace I can't remember, but probably from Zim because he's a wealth of totally useless knowledge, that if you second toe is longer than your fist, you're twice as likely to reach a position of power in your life." (Chapter 1, page 4)

"Something about people who sit around all day getting high, and then have the nerve to complain about the people who put their own lives at risk every time they swing their feet out of bed and drop them on the floor." (Chapter 3, page 46)

"There's a saying about the military that you go in a boy and come back a man. But I'm pretty sure Boaz went in a man and came...