How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Jude can't stop missing Grandma. She hardly left her bedside at the end. When Mom found them that final morning, one asleep, one dead, they were holding hands. (1.71)
Jude lost her grandmother not so long before her mother died. That's a lot of loss for a tween.
Quote #2
I study the time on Mom's old watch—she was wearing it when her car sailed off the cliff two years ago, killing her on impact…. (2.16)
This line of exposition tells us what happened to Dianna Sweetwine very early on. And very unexpectedly, too—last we heard, the twins were about 14 and Mom was alive and well (if not totally perfect at mothering). In other words, hold onto your hat, folks: there's more to her story than meets the eye.
Quote #3
To me, boys don't smell like soap or shampoo or cut grass or sweat from soccer practice or suntan lotion or the ocean from hours spent in the green curl of a wave anymore, they smell like death. (2.190)
Jude loses her virginity on the day of her mother's death—a coincidence that really messes with her head.