“If you don't display a little more grace, I'm going to smear butter all over your face!”

“Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.”

“We also mark what's ours. And as I'm not going to see you for twelve hours, I think I'll leave a little more all over you.”

“In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit....”

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”

“If you think I'm going to cry all over your chest because you don't feel the same way, you're wrong. I don't beg for anybody's love.”