“When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!”

“A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.”

“I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place.And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.”

“Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.”

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”

“I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.”