How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Everything about who we were is gone—our names, our pictures, our old clothes and old lives. All that we have is our souls. (1.9)
Toswiah/Evie takes the line "All that you have is your soul" from a Tracy Chapman song. How does she define her soul? What does she mean when she talks about it?
Quote #2
Left behind is that rocker and one Toswiah Green, standing with her arms folded, on a tree-lined street in Colorado. If one of my old classmates shows a group picture around, someone might ask Who's that? And the classmate will answer That was Toswiah. She just disappeared one day. Weird, huh? (2.10)
There's a definite fear of being forgotten going on here. Underneath all the issues moving and being assigned a new identity cause lies Toswiah's fear that maybe she wasn't all that important to begin with—that maybe no one will really care that she's gone.