We have big department stores like Bloomingdale’s and Saks Fifth Avenue. It’s like this place ate those stores and a carnival. Is there anything it doesn’t have?

I’d heard people order coffee drinks whose names went on for half an hour . . . A double mocha joka jerky over ice with a peppermint twist and a Kansas City pickle on the side.

Did you see that bloke’s fingers go into the blender? He didn’t even feel it. I think I want to be a zombie when I die.” “Too true,” Gordo said. “But with better hair.

A regular Ferris wheel from a Wilmington carnival was like a dwarf planet compared to this gigantic wheel.

Ellie said, “Give me the Pad-i, and I’ll type today.”“Pad-i?” I asked.“Yeah. Like ‘Pad Thai,’” she said.I asked, “What’s wrong with ‘iPad’?”“I thought it might be fun to change it. You know, see if it catches on.