“Game pad game pad, | game game pad pad, | game pad game pad, | game game pad pad, | Tarquini and Prevale challenge each other with joypads, | joypad strokes, | joypad strokes, | joypad strokes, | joypad strokes, | Gamepad the virtual console.”

“The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.”

“Some smart moves were little more than nicely padded traps.”

“I'll put it this way, it's like when you play football and you put on all the gear — the shoes and the pads and the helmet. At first, it's bulky and cumbersome. But then, when you go in the game and you start to play, you don't even know you have it on. Swimming in the suit was like that. Once you get into it, you forget about the suit.”

“When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw…”

“Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.”

“How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.”

“I saw the Colonel empty his revolver and go down under ten wild boys. A moment later they tossed his bleeding head into the air and started a ball game. Just at dusk the wild boys got up and padded away. They left the bodies stripped to the skin many with genitals cut off. The wild boys make little testicles in which they carry their hasish and khat.”

“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”

“She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.”