"You're alive, aren't you? That's more than I would have thought when I first met you." "That's... comforting," I said. "Is it? Wasn't meant to be. Simple recitation of fact." "Always a pleasure, Randall." "I wouldn't go far. I thought there was a good chance you would have blown yourself up by the time you turned fifteen." "I almost did," I said. "Several times." "I still remember the day when Morgan told me about you. It was the day I first got an ulcer."