"I now understand relativity," said Joan as the plane left the island's tarmac and headed north.

He played dominoes with the old timers, already one of them at 15.

The naysayers and armchair quarterbacks, when given their chance to shine, failed gloriously.

She stopped engaging her enemies and eventually they forgot all about her.

After he threw out his television he became unable to hold conversations with his coworkers.

 Rankled by stupidity Lucy stopped leaving her house.

She preferred a universe in which she was at the center.