The weeping and gnashing of teeth would be with us forever. 

 The experts espoused the same ideas as the ex-pats that the extremists should be exiled.  

 The country had become a slow-motion car wreck. 

Once so outgoing, Shawn's shell thickened into a hard and inflexible carapace as he grew older. 

 The dogs ruled.

 "Why don't they have the 1 percent on that show 'Hoarders' since they're the biggest ones around?" she asked earnestly.

"Thanks," he said and the universe tipped its cap.