"That's what we're for, Sam. It's a snack to Galactus, but they'll always be people to us. Somebody has to understand the scary parts of how big it all is without losing sight of the fact that the billions and billions don't even matter."

He held his fingers a hair's breadth apart.

"For just one tiny little person, in one tiny little town, in one tiny little country, on one tiny little continent, it'd be worth it. Fighting back against monsters like that. Never mind the billions and billions."

They had to be able to taken in the bigness without losing sight of how valuable the small was.