How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
We loaded the two suitcases Miss Whitlaw had onto the wagon and drove them down to the Ferry Building. We would arrange to sell her wagon and horse for her. There was always a need for a good horse and wagon over here now with the rebuilding. The whole trip was made in a long silence. In the years we had known them, we had grown probably as close as we could to demons. (10.159)
Like family, the Lees take care of the details of the Whitlaws' move to Oakland. Even this deep into their friendship, however, Moon Shadow speaks of them as demons, as though this were an irrefutable barrier between them.
Quote #8
I had found my mountain of gold, after all, and it had not been nuggets but people who had made it up: people like the Company and the Whitlaws. I had not realized until I had left it that I had been on the mountain of gold all that time. (11.46)
Moon Shadow realizes that the mountain of gold he had dreamed of was achieved not in a place but in people. Home is not a place but a network of people to count on.
Quote #9
"I came to help," Uncle snapped. "Not because I believe in your crazy dream. Call it an old man's whim if you like." But then Uncle relented for a moment. "And we didn't come to laugh. There will be those among the Tang people who will laugh – but now they will have to laugh at all of us, for we'll share in your folly."
"All of them, Father," I said. "All the Company came." (12.35-36)
Uncle Bright Star lets down his pride and shows his love for Windrider when he brings the Company to make their friends' dream come true.