How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Line)
Quote #1
"I mean," she said, sitting back up and tucking the tissue all delicate-like into her bag, "he belongs where he belongs. If he ended up here, then that's where he belongs." (2.33)
Maybe belonging someplace is really that simple—wherever you are is where you belong. The other kids are all weirded out that there is a white kid living in their midst, but Samantha sees it as perfectly natural.
Quote #2
I like this side, I said.
Sean kept staring out the window.
Maybe if you were standing somewhere else and looking over here, you'd think the houses weren't real special. The way some of them could use new windows or some new paint. The way the doors hung off of some and other ones had some cardboard sometimes where a window should be. (3.6-8)
Frannie's "home" may not look like much to other people, but she thinks it's perfect. She loves this side of the highway and could not imagine life anywhere else—after all, this is where she was born and raised, and this is where her loved ones live.
Quote #3
We had everything we needed on this side—huge supermarkets like Bohack when you have to do the big family shop once a week[…] We had the Price School, where I went—Mama said we could make believe it was named for Leontyne Price, the black opera singer… (3.17)
This side of the highway pretty much has every single thing that their community needs in order to feel at home. Granted, it doesn't have white people, but Frannie doesn't care—she likes it here. Sean isn't so convinced that it's right to be segregated like this, though.