Joel N. Ross

Quotes

• “Well, the bad news,” Swedish said from the wheel, “is that Chess still thinks he’s funny.” “What’s the good news?” Loret...”
• “If Chess is the switch,” Loretta said, “how does he turn the Fog off?” Bea bit her lower lip. “I don’t know—ask Chess.” ...”
• “Now you’re listening to Swedish ?” I asked her. “He thinks I’m the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen ...”
• “Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that i...”
• “You know what to do?” “Wander around,” I said. “Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.”
• “Are you . . . lost?” “Not really,” she told him. “We just don’t know where we’re going.”
• “It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!”
• “After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 a”
• “What are you doing?” I asked Loretta. “Stabbing a cushion,” she told me.”
• “Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No.”
• “...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...”
• “We’re alive!” Swedish told her. “I did not see that coming.”
• “Keep moving!” “Bea’s arguing with the floor.”