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"While playing games all day sounds like a great job, it's not as much fun as you think. If one tester falls through a crack in the world and an LD [Lead Developer] notes the issue as fixed, someone in the QA [Quality Assursnce] department needs to return to that location and possibly spend the next eight hours jumping and running all over the ground geometry to make sure the issue was really fixed."

"When a pebble falls down a well, it is gratifying to hear the eventual plunk. If, however, the pebble only slips into darkness and vanishes without a sound, the effect is disquieting."

"Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you."

"He thought that if he was killed there at that time it would be as romantic, to the old standards, as death by a bit of falling iron in a factory."

"...but precisely as they had submitted to Flanagan. For a moment they rolled their eyes like hurt cows, but they obeyed the Voice. The situation simply required a Voice."

"Tell the truth and shame the devil."

"We all float down here!"

"The air smells green tonight,he thought, and smiled a little."

My boy Stan is synesthetic, so it seems!

'"You don't really want to go under there, do you?" Richie asked. He was almost pleading.
"Nuh-nuh-no," Bill said, "b-but I' m g-gonna."'

"They felt right together; they fitted neatly against each other's edges. He couldn't explain it to himself any better than that, and since it didn't really seem to need any explaining, he decided he ought to just let it be.""

Big yikes!!

"Silver began to roll along more briskly. Houses slid past smoothly instead of just poking by."

This entire section is really genius in describing someone fathoming the beauty of cycling for the first time.

"TV monsters and movie monsters and comic-book monsters were not real. Not until you went to bed and couldn't sleep..."

"Want a ballon, Ben? "

Oh boy...

"Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too."

"They could get their hair permed every day and they'd still be a couple of conceited snots."

"My God, I am being digested by my own past."

"Can an entire city be haunted?"

Chapter seventeen is called "The Worst Plan Ever".

Definitely a book that is going into my special collection :D

"“I wish we could keep you out of it, but I don’t see how we have a choice. We need your help.” There it was again. That word. 'Help'."

"The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life."

"I didn’t know what those were, but I shuddered at the names. Why did everything around here have to sound so painful? Why couldn’t we be up against creatures called fluffbirds and taffypaws?"

"Hi, Georgie..."

Oh boy...

"So if you ever think you’ve made a bad first impression—maybe you tripped and fell over your own feet, or you had ketchup on your face—just picture me, Tristan Strong, hopping into a room full of gods while trying to pull a thorn out of my butt."

"...we can’t hide from our fears. We have to be able to talk about them, or else they’ll fester like poison, eating us from the inside.”

"With Granddad, everything was about work. Work, work, work. Bored? Here’s some work. Finished working? Here’s more work.
Need someone to talk to? Obviously, that meant you didn’t work hard enough, so you know what? Have a little bit more work."

خلصت؟ راجع! One way or another, it's kinda universal...

"As for Tristan’s further adventures, the sky’s the limit. Wait, no. Tristan punched a hole in the sky. There are no limits."

Okay, I am hooked!