“Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.”

“Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?”

“All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”