How we cite our quotes:
Quote #4
"Not anymore. You're sophisticated young women. Nobody wants to watch you unwrap gift cards." (14.35)
Even though Wren can't wait to be a (drunk) adult, she's bummed that her grandma wants to spend Christmas with her Aunt Lynn's kids, protesting that she and Cath are kids too. It's like she has one foot in both worlds, childhood and adulthood. So it goes your freshman year of college, though.
Quote #5
Their dad still hadn't taken down their swing set. She wished he would; it was a death trap now, and the neighbor kids liked to sneak into the yard and play on it. (14.64)
When Cath goes home after being away at college, she's ready for the swing set to come down, but not so much the Simon Snow posters and Sanrio mobile. Growing up doesn't happen all at once.
Quote #6
"Months are different in college," Levi said, "especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months." (15.141)
If every freshman month is six actual months, and one year of college is nine months long, an eighteen-year-old freshman is twenty-two by the end of the year. In that case, Wren will be of legal drinking age by spring break. Yee-haw.