Lastly, Jacob holds both of his lives very close to him. When deciding whether or not he should stay with his new peculiar family, or go home to his parents he said, " The problem was, I wanted to much. I wanted both lives. Dual citizenship. To be peculiar, and learn everything there is to learn about the peculiar world, and to be with Emma, and explore all the loops Bentham had catalogued in his Panloopticon. But also to do the stupid, ordinary things normal teenagers do, while I could still pass for one. Get my driver's license. Make friends my own age. Finish high school. Then I'd be eighteen, and I could go anywhere I wanted- or anywhen. I could come back." (420) This proves how much he truly cares about both lives he has been blessed with.
