“The rusty padlock held, but pointlessly, because the hasp was entirely loose from the door frame; the door stood slightly ajar, and when they tugged at it opened wide enough to let them squeeze through.”
“I’m smarter now that my smartphone is gone. I can pay attention in a different way. I know what strangers are thinking. I know when a town is coming before it comes because the pollution changes a half mile out.”
"There in the ruined hotel in Goodbye, Idaho, on his third day all alone, during the midst of his evening inspections, 10-year-old Dewey Addison was tiptoeing around the fourth floor when he passed an open doorway and thought he saw something move."