How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Feel all this love. Popular. What? So many fans. So many friends and so many who want to be. (25.4)
What's worse: Trina's inability to see herself as others see her, or the depression that might ensue if she realizes that she's not as well liked as she thinks she is?
Quote #8
Coach is wrong. It's not how she says it is. I don't control s***. I don't control Hershheiser. The grades I get. The classes on my schedule. When I come and go. I don't control none of that. (30.13)
It's a lot easier to cut yourself some slack if you think things are out of your control. But Dominique lists some things that are in her control—she does control her grades. No, she can't force Hershheiser to raise her grade, but there are other ways to raise a grade that she hasn't explored. Why might she not want to admit that she is in control of some aspects of her life?
Quote #9
He bends down and takes my hand. My damaged hand.
"What's going on, Leticia?"
I look down. I can't stop the pen from tapping. (32.18-20)
This is it, Leticia's big chance. The guilt just weighs on her, and she's clearly agitated about what to do. Mr. Cosgrove sees her in the way Dominique wants to be seen. And in the next chapter, we know that Leticia says nothing. Nada. We'd like to see her a little more torn up about it in Chapter 35, but no dice—old dirt-driven Leticia is back.