“The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.”
“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”
“The wishbone will never replace the backbone”
“I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.”
“Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”