“I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together”

“The rain comes down harder, darkness falls. We don't care. Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

“I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together”

“I been knocking on the door that holds the throne.
I been looking for the map that leads me home.
I been stumbling on good hearts turned to stone.
The road of good intentions has gone dry as a bone.
We take care of our own.
We take care of our own.
Wherever this flag’s flown,
We take care of our own.”

“we must take care of our families wherever we find them.”

“Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

“I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.”

“If we don't stand together, we will never catch up and the industrialised nations won't care. I predict it here today as your brother.”