How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"It doesn't hurt—don't worry." Watch out for those words…they are the same words. What comes after those words is deceit, and…The stroke from the tumor made her writhe on the floor. A bursting vein of terror released itself and then there was the darkness, even beyond the power of Yr. (7.36-37)
When a staff member of the hospital explains what a cold-sheet pack is, Deborah immediately distrusts the words and has a violent reaction. She was told the same thing about her tumor operation, and that lie caused her to continue to feel the pain of the tumor long after it was removed.
Quote #5
The director gave an impassioned speech about a "liar in our midst who uses her religion to get pity and involve innocent girls in trouble—one among us who would stoop to any evil, any dishonor." He would not mention names, he said, but they all knew who it was. (8.15)
Deborah is at summer camp when a fellow camper calls her a "stinking Jew." When she gets the name of the guilty camper wrong, the counselors call her a liar. This incident reinforces the negative stories Deborah tells herself about being poisonous and hopeless. In fact, one of her Yri nicknames is "The Always Deceived."
Quote #6
"How many times does one tell the truth and die for it!" (9.25)
Deborah is exasperated by the feeling that she has been pressured by her classmates into renouncing her artistic ability. When Dr. Fried tries to get her to see that she didn't publicly claim her art in front of her classmates out of fear of rejection, Deborah dismisses the suggestion. She's convinced that if she did tell the kids the picture they found was hers, they would have made fun of it or rejected her in some way. But the truth is that she doesn't know that; it's just an assumption.