1.1. Most any emotion can happen if you look back at your past self.
1.2. "Joy and rage and wild animal gladness and shame become tangled together in the multicolored skein of fourteen-going-on-fifteen as I recall that devastating moment"
1.3. Nostalgia can be very powerful
1.4. "Whenever the memory of those marigolds flashes across my mind, a strange nostalgia comes with it"
2. Destruction
2.1. Destruction often comes from a culmination of many things
2.2. "And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction"
2.3. Destruction can be fun for one side, but is often annoying for the other side
2.4. “'Y’all git some stones,' commanded Joey now and was met with instant giggling obedience"
2.5. "Miss Lottie was enraged now"
3. Maturity
3.1. Growing up can be hard, but it is important
3.2. "a strange restlessness of body and of spirit, a feeling that something old and familiar was ending, and something unknown and therefore terrifying was beginning."
3.3. Sometimes you can identify the exact moment in which you grew up
3.4. "it was the beginning of the experience that in some inexplicable way marked the end of innocence."
4. Companionship
4.1. It's nice to have a companion to help you feel safer
4.2. I was lost for a reasonable reply. I could not say, “I’m scared and I don’t want to be alone,” so I merely said, “I’m going out. If you want to come, come on.”
4.3. It is important to support those around you
4.4. “Twenty-two years, Maybelle, twenty-two years,” he was saying, “and I got nothing for you, nothing, nothing.”
