Quotes About Nub

What's the one thing — not two things, not three, not four, but the one big thing — in the box?

finding the core," and expressing it in the form of a compact idea

like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change. That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.