How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Line)
Quote #4
I'd been so embarrassed when I left Samantha's house that day. There wasn't any chicken because there hadn't been any money for chicken. But I didn't know that until I got home and Mama explained. (12.29)
Oops… that's embarrassing. Frannie definitely commits a social faux pas when she asks Samantha's mama where the chicken is at dinner—only to later find out that they couldn't afford the chicken.
Quote #5
I had gone to school the next day and apologized to Samantha, but she'd just said, Forget about it, there'll be chicken on Friday when my mama gets paid. You could come for dinner then if you want to. And that next Friday I went to her house and ate her mama's baked chicken and we never talked about it again. (12.30)
The nice thing about Samantha is that she doesn't make a big deal about the fact that her family is poor. She doesn't feel sorry for herself, but instead, she treats it as a fact of life and accepts it without question.
Quote #6
It's like that, Frannie. The hearing girls are the bridges. They're the other worlds. They're the worlds I can't just walk across and into, you know.
Kind of.
I mean, the deaf girls, they're my world—we don't even have to talk and we know each other. But I don't just want my world. I want everybody else's world too. (13.26-28)
It's not just hard for Sean to be rejected by pretty girls. He also hates being left out of the world that the girls represent—the world of larger society. Sean just wants to know what it's like to be a part of the rest of the hearing world.