How we cite our quotes: (Poem Title, Stanza)
Quote #7
And in that righteous moment, complete clarity. Bree was not an invention, not a stranger. Bree was the essence of me. (Mom and Scott.6)
Is this really true? Is Bree really the core of who Kristina is, or is this just what Kristina is thinking while caught up in her affair with the monster? We're thinking she's really some hybrid of her two selves… but what do you think?
Quote #8
Before Bree, that never would have happened.
Whatever she'd done to me, for me, and basically, in spite of me, she'd given me a whole new sense of self. (Before Bree.1-2)
Ha. That's for sure. We can't exactly say that her "new sense of self" is a positive force for good, though.
Quote #9
No one can take you from you, Kristina. (Stunned.7)
In the aftermath of being raped by Brendan, Chase offers Kristina this surprisingly thought provoking advice. Without really knowing her whole situation, he manages to speak to the fact of how she's largely allowed other people—her parents, Adam, Brendan—to define who she is rather than discovering who she is for herself. Perhaps her struggle with drugs, no matter how much suffering it brings her, is the way Kristina manages to get to a place of making her life rather than letting others tell her who she should be.