How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Who wouldn't want to visit the future and see what everyone was up to? But here I was, in the future, and I couldn't think of anything to do. The trouble was, it wasn't really the future future. If anyone ever asked me what the future was like, I could only tell them that I had a baby sister and a two-year-old kid. (12.102)
We get Sam's point. To him, the future is really interesting and scary, but it's just his future. No one—outside of his friends and family—would even care about it. There's never enough time for Sam to figure out other stuff that's going on in the future since he only visits quickly each time.
Quote #8
I worked out that there were two futures. There's the one I got whizzed to. And then there's the real future, the one you have to wait to see, the one you can't visit, the one you can only get to by living all the days in between… It had become less important. (13.57)
Boom. That's the sound of our minds being blown. Sam tells us this to explain how he's able to change what happens in the future by visiting it again. Even though he messes up the diaper change the first time around, he rocks it on round two. It turns out the real future is better than the fake one.
Quote #9
Maybe Tony Hawk was just stopping me from saying something I might have regretted one day. I know why Andrea wanted to talk. The waiting made everything seem like we only had a little bit of time to say what was on our minds, as if we were going to die in this room. (14.66)
Sam thinks Tony Hawk somehow transported him to the future to see what things will be like. We're not sure why TH would care about Sam's future or making him see the mundane moments that he does, but we're glad it makes Sam revaluate his actions.