“Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?”

“„I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa,” Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look shocked whenever Dad went Old-Faithful-profane, and I began to wonder if Lisa and I shouldn't swear more so Franklin and Teddy weren't so put off by curse words.”

“How the heck I was supposed to have a spiritual awakening without a flush toilet?”

“If I dont go will you go anyways?John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.”

“The man with two plungers for hands never wipes his ass, but he also never clogs up a toilet either.”

“I hate you." My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me.She really did. "I love you," was all I could say in return. "You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." "I'm trying not to be.” Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.[pp.28]”