“As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.”

“Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”

“I wondered if I was an error of God's planning that would be fixed at the end of my life.”

“Carrot followed me to the couch. We sat down and settled in. The couch was our center, somehow. Whatever, it didn’t matter why or how, the couch simply managed to be where we decided big stuff. This time “big stuff” would just include defeating impossibly powerful imaginary creatures that used to live in my head.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“Fix things before they get too big for fixing.”