How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
The one thing I didn't do, though, all the way home, was look at myself. Not in the side mirror. Not in the rearview. (13.158)
After being raped, Annabel doesn't want to look at herself in the mirror. She knows that she's changed—that everything has changed—but she doesn't want to face that reality yet.
Quote #8
Our mistake was that we'd both thought I was capable of changing. That I had changed. In the end though, that was the biggest lie of all. (15.28)
Annabel just doesn't see herself as the kind of brash, strong girl who can handle confrontation. Maybe that's why after she ditches Owen at the club, she doesn't chase him down and explain everything, and instead just lets it go and resigns herself to the fact that their friendship is over.
Quote #9
"I am the middle sister," she read. "The on in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the one who has been broken." (16.150)
Huh. Wasn't Annabel the one who was saying that she was the shade of gray in the family? It seems like her other sisters are having a hard time defining themselves in the family—and in the larger world—as well.