How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
By then everyone is arriving, congregating outside, and I can't write another given. To us stuck inside, the milling and laughing sound like a party, and who wants to be inside when the party is going on outside (1.10)
Leticia is in zero hour to recover her math credit, and she resents the separation from society. Before school is a key time to get the latest dirt for Leticia, and that's integral to developing her social standing—it's what she bonds over with Bea and what she can use to get others to pay attention to her.
Quote #2
Not everyone is meant to get along. Not everyone should be in each other's faces. Fenster doesn't say that in SI, but it should be up there on her list. I don't have nothing in common with girls like Lucia. (10.39)
Dominique is in history class, listening to a discussion about the Cold War. Is her assessment about the world—and her microcosm in school—too harsh or just plain honest? And even though Dominique might not have anything in common socially with Lucia, should or could she respect her anyway?
Quote #3
Well, I have a solution to this entire situation. Take the Puerto Rican kids, the Dominicans, the Mexicans, the Colombians, and the Ecuadorians out of Spanish and give them two periods of English as their foreign language. They don't need more Spanish. (11.14)
Leticia wants to get out of French and take Spanish, which would be easier for her. Her solution is super entitled and also pretty racist, though, and she isn't able to see that other students' differences are okay.