How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I am thinking about how hard it is for me to communicate with my father. He is the one person I would most like to "chat" with. We could sit in our backyard and talk small talk or large talk. It wouldn't matter. (10.42)
Unfortunately, Arturo's only willing to communicate on his own terms. He's more concerned with Marcelo being "normal" than with actually understanding him.
Quote #8
"You are raising your voice. I haven't seen you do that in a very long time. That's interesting. Anyway, I will get Jasmine the help she wanted to begin with. She'll be all right." (15.54)
In noticing that Marcelo's raising his voice but failing to process the emotion behind it, Arturo's behaving way more Aspergerishly (adverb of the day!) than his son. It's an odd moment where a similar behavior shows just how little these two understand each other.
Quote #9
I sign I love you with my hand, the way I learned at Paterson.
She touches her heart with her hand and then she touches my chest. (22.24-25)
American Sign Language has its own sentence construction, vocabulary, and slang. To learn more about Deaf culture and why some people choose to sign rather than speak, check out the documentary Sound and Fury. (Have the tissues handy.)