How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Would you get me back?" Sammy asked.
"Of course. What do you think?"
"I don't know," Sammy said.
"We're all together, aren't we?" Dicey asked him. "We'd just have to get you back. But it would be hard, really hard—so I'm glad." (1.5.62-65)
Okay, so Dicey wouldn't leave Sammy after all. He seems a bit surprised that if he got caught stealing his big sister would come after him. But it's true: Dicey's not like Momma and she won't leave anyone behind.
Quote #5
"Oh, don't be sorry," Cousin Eunice said, leaning forward, pushing her glasses back up her nose. "We are family, aren't we? And when I think of you, all alone—abandoned— like myself really, in a way. Why, I couldn't do anything else, could I? (1.9.134)
Um, okay. Is Cousin Eunice really drawing parallels to her situation here? She was a grown woman whose mother died, while these kids were abandoned and left to fend for themselves in a mall parking lot. Seriously—not the same thing.
Quote #6
"The police are trying to trace [your father] for me. They had searched for him some years ago. He seems to have disappeared."
"I don't mind," Dicey said.
"I do." Father Joseph's voice was sharp and angry. That surprised Dicey, and, sensing his concern, she was grateful to him, for the first time in all the time in Bridgeport, truly grateful. (1.11.34-36)
Father Joseph does not take abandonment lightly. Here is someone, for the first time, finally saying that what has happened to these kids is not okay. They don't deserve any of this.