How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Ignoring him, I let the tunnel zoom in on the woman's face. Her bright blue irises, her warm smile, everything became clear, and I knew I had seen her before. But I had already figured that out as soon as I caught sight of the little girl's eyes. If this little girl in the vision was me, then the woman had to be my mother. (29.50)
The more Gemma spends time in the vision at the lake, the more she realizes that it's a memory she has from her own childhood. This is the only way that she's been able to see her mother's face again.
Quote #8
"[…] So, instead of taking your soul, Sophia did something a little less severe. She detached your soul from your emotions. And since emotions have such a huge connection with memories, it made it so you couldn't remember anything about your past." (30.49)
The reason that Gemma can't remember anything from her childhood is that her memories are no longer connected to her emotions. And without emotions, she doesn't feel the need to remember anything. She has no emotional connection to things that happened to her in the past.
Quote #9
"Look, Gemma, maybe you saw it wrong. Maybe it was someone else who forced your mom to go into the lake. I mean, Dyvinius said that you didn't see the vision correctly the first time. Who's to say you didn't see correctly the second time either?" (32.13)
Alex is desperate for Gemma to say that the vision isn't real and that it's not an actual memory from her childhood. After all, he can't bear to think that his father would do something so cruel.