How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"So that's why you said that keeping friends is hard. What a jackass." Marti pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose. "Maybe I'm just weird but I don't think you should throw away great friends just to sit around all year singing, I'm-normal-I'm-normal-I'm-normal to yourself. Your friends are not like a … a hairstyle or something."
I felt small, petty, and creepy. (9.113-114)
Ooh, you just got burned by Marti. Something tells us that getting burned by Marti really stinks. Either way, we think Karl deserves it. His "be normal" plan is ridiculous and borderline traitorous to his friends.
Quote #8
See, the thing was, Gratz was sort of right. Usually, if you picked a fight with one Madman, you picked a fight with all of us. (12.115)
Maybe Karl's X-Men analogy isn't that far off. Mess with one Madman, and the rest of them swarm. Now, that's loyalty, folks.
Quote #9
So here I was, the Lone Madman. All eyes were on him as the town rode away, and he sat there on his great white chicken. My work here is done. I'm needed wherever there's another friend to betray, another butt to lick, wherever the people cry out for conformity. (15.143)
You might not get what Karl is doing here, but this speech is a parody of Lone Ranger dialogue from the original series. He's literally mocking himself for betraying his friends and not walking out with the rest of the Madman crew in Gratz's class.