“And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”
“It was great, wasn’t it? Really exciting stuff. (Chris)Like having my teeth drilled without Novocain. (Cassandra)”
“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
“She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.”
“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.”