“...and for the second time that day he blesses the certainty of airports because he can always turn around and go someplace else.”

“My father was a strange combination of drill instructor and Alice’s white rabbit: he always had someplace important to go and enjoyed bossing everyone else around.”

“I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there might be a wife someplace else. ”

“This can't go on all the time...all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.”

“We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.”

“I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. ”