“All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!”

“Everything that had happened was all part of the same great big something, it had to happen, I just knew”

“She thought about the last car ride she had taken. It had only been a few days ago but it felt like she had journeyed for a lifetime since. The universe worked in strange ways. What if everything that had ever happened to Tina had happened so that one day she could rescue Lockie? It seemed too cruel an idea but you never knew. Or maybe she was just in the right place at the right time. Shit just happened . .”

“Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?”

“Everything that happens in America happens in New York.”

“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”