"Last summer, the summer I turned twelve, was the summer Adam came. And forever after I will think of events as Before Adam or After Adam."
Preface, no page number

"It's just that Granny lives in Kentucky and I hardly ever see her, and Nana ... well, Nana is Nana."
Chap. 1, p. 5

"At our house, Mom helps Cookie with the cooking and Toby with the cleaning, Dad tends the gardens, and when we need to go somewhere we hop in our ancient Ford station wagon and Dad drives. At Nana and Papa's the cooks cook, the maids clean, the gardeners garden, and the chauffeur drives."
Chap. 2, p. 14

"Maybe Nana and Papa think he doesn't fit there. Certainly, he is not part of the perfect world Nana has worked so hard to create."
Chap. 4, p. 34

"I have seen this before. It's Nana's highly effective and very annoying way of not...