“He’s never said or done anything extreme around me. He’s a lump. He sits around and consumes. Like he thinks that’s his purpose in life, to let other people build and grow so that he can just slurp up what they make while giving nothing back, until he dies.”

— Hunter to Key in Jason Pargin, I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom, St. Martin’s Press, Ch. Day 2, p. 129, 2024