How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Yes, Meggie was fond of the van, but this morning she hesitated to get in. When Mo finally went back to the house to lock the door, she suddenly felt they would never come back here, that this journey was going to be different than any other, that they would drive farther and farther away, in flight of something that had no name. (2.41)
The old farmhouse where Mo and Meggie have been living for the last few years is as much of a home as Meggie's ever had… and now they're saying goodbye to it, at least for a while. Mo isn't telling Meggie the full story, and she knows it, so she's fearful that leaving home means they won't return for a good long while (or ever).
Quote #2
"I could never pass by a bookshop. The house where we lived was very small—we called it our shoebox, our mouse hole, we had all sorts of names for it—and that very day I'd bought yet another crate of books from a secondhand bookseller." (16.3)
Mo is definitely a book-lover, and his home reflects it. Not much money for rent? No problem. So long as there's enough space for books, books, and more books, then Mo is cool. Same goes for his wife, apparently, though Meggie doesn't really remember her mom.
Quote #3
"No doubt Capricorn promised to take him back," he said. "Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants to do is go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending!" (16.32)
Mo knows that Dustfinger was super-attached to the idea of going home to his own story, but he doesn't realize the extent of that desire until Capricorn uses it to manipulate Dustfinger into doing his bidding. Again Dustfinger comes across as pretty darn desperate to get home, regardless of the consequences for other people or for himself (because as we learn later, he doesn't make it to the end of the story alive).