Savvy Loyalty Quotes

Mibs, Fish and Grandpa Bomba know exactly how special the next day will be, but can't let anyone know that they're anticipating it, because if something bad should happen… well, that would be bad for everyone.

There's nothing quite like the feeling of knowing someone has your back, and once you feel is, you never want it to stop. Will is an interesting character in that even though he isn't that old or mature, he seems to know himself and what he wants fairly well. In some ways, Will Junior is a little bit like a puppy dog in his loyalty—it's always there for Mibs, even when she doesn't want it and when it's following her around.

Fish knows the meaning of loyalty to his sister and family, to the point that he's willing to mess up an entire church to protect them. This sense of loyalty ties in a bit with Fish's notions of family—which for Fish are probably one and the same. Can loyalty and family be separate things or ideas?

Here's what we mean when we say that Will Junior's loyalty makes him into a bit of a lost puppy. Will is there for Mibs in spite of and despite the fact she doesn't want him to be. Mibs is… how do we say this… not quite as loyal to Will Junior at this point.

Lester, in spite of his horribly mean tattoos, has backbone when he needs it most. Perhaps this is one of those times where we can see how loyalty can be a weakness. Sure Lester has started to become loyal to Lill and she's a positive force in his life, but at the same time we also can see that he must have been loyal to Carla and his mother—and both of them used that loyalty in nasty ways.

Fish shows us here what his kind of loyalty looks like: it's literally a shield to keep interlopers away. And because his outlooks on loyalty and family are one and the same, it shows that Fish feels that he needs to be the protector for his family and their secrets.

It seems that Mibs is starting to adopt Fish's point of view that family and loyalty are one and the same for the Beaumonts. This passage shows an interesting difference between Mibs and Fish, though—Mibs's definition of family is wider than Fish's, and it extends to Lester and Lill.

Loyalties can be made to principles or people, but they are what you turn to when you have nothing left. Lester has already shown a few times that he is loyal to Lill, but has never actually said it out loud. What's intriguing about Lester is that he actually realizes in this moment that previously he has given his loyalty to people who didn't deserve it, and his desperation here rises from hope that Lill will be a person worth being loyal to.

Hello, moral conundrum for Mibs. This is a growing-up moment for Mibs, as she decides between loyalty to the family she's made or the family she was born into. Ultimately, she chooses the family she was born into and hopes the family she's made will understand.

Looks like Mibs has grown to include Will in the group of people that she is loyal to, which makes him (not in an icky way) a part of her family.