Heartwarming / Have Space Suit – Will Travel

• The "conversations" Kip has with Oscar, oddly enough.
  Kip: Oscar, this is as far as I go.
  Oscar: (I'm afraid it is. I've let you down...but thanks for not leaving me outside there.)
  Kip: You didn't let me down...you were swell. I just didn't quite make it...
  Oscar: (I guess we both didn't quite make it...but we sure let 'em know we tried! So long partner.)
  Kip: So Long. Hasta la vista, amigo!
• While initially proving to be rather rude to outright belligerent, even noting his interest in buying Peewee as a slave. Centurion Iunio shows himself to be a brave man during humanities trial. So much so that Kip and Peewee cheer him on. Which causes the man to smile at the children and encourage them to be brave as well, before he's returned to his own time.
  Iunio: (grinning at Kip and Peewee) Slit their throats as I bring them down boy, there's work to be done!
• Peewee is annoying at times, but not often. She's actually a surprisingly level-headed and heartwarming kid to be around.
  Peewee: Kip? It's been fun, mostly. Hasn't it?
  Kip: Huh? Yes Peewee, it's been swell. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
• The Mother Thing, from the way Kip describes her. She's exactly everything a mother should be.
  Kip: She loves everything small and young and fuzzy and helpless. That's why she's a "Mother Thing".
  • When he gets home, he momentarily mistakes his own mother for the Mother Thing.
• By the end of the book, Kip plans to let his boss, Mr. Charton use the "happy thing" (which seems to induce well "happy feelings" into whoever uses it). Mostly for being such a good boss, and kindly man in general.
  • Mr. Charton also offers to pay Kip's way through higher education. And adds they don't need the custom of the local bully Ace, who keeps bugging Kip.

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