How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Slowly I was patching together Loyd's life, and it was not the poor little gypsy story I'd imagined. I supposed I'd wanted to see him as a fellow orphan. But everywhere he'd been, he's been with family. (18.134)
Part of what's important about this realization is that it fits with Loyd's significance in Codi's life. He's good for her exactly because he's impossible to misinterpret. He won't let Codi rewrite him as a TV Indian or a sad little orphan baby; he is who he is, and he's super straightforward about it. Loyd cuts right through all of Codi's fictions and is aggressively well adjusted. Who knew that could be a thing?
Quote #5
"These men don't see how we got to do something right now. They think the trees can die and we can just go somewhere else, and as long as we fry up the bacon for them in the same old pan, they think it would be..." she falters, hugging her elbows in earnest..."that it would be home." (16.52)
This is sort of kind of news to Codi, who has been travelling the world with her proverbial bacon pan for a long time. But the point here is that it isn't enough to just have your stuff somewhere: home is attached to place.
Quote #6
Our old house with its bolted-down flowerpots stood eerily untouched, inside and out. Carlo had let all the plants finish dying, as expected, but beyond that he'd made no effort to make the place his own. He seemed to be living like a man in mourning, not wishing it disturb the traces of a deceased wife. Or wives. (17.31)
This is probably a sign that Carlo is not very good for Codi, since he's, if anything, worse at nesting than she is. He also kills plants. We'd go so far as to venture that Carlo is the sulfuric acid of Codi's identity development.