Find quotes from this novel, with commentary from Shmoop. Pick a theme below to begin.
Family Quotes
If your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you. (1.1.4)
Suffering Quotes
It made me wonder, thought, what would have happened if Kate had been healthy. […] Certainly, I would not be part of this family. (1.1.4)
Choices Quotes
A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion. (1.1.98)
Isolation Quotes
To reach my brother's room, you actually have to leave the house, which is exactly the way he likes it. (1.1.54)
Mortality Quotes
In my first memory, I am three years old and I am trying to kill my sister. (Prologue.1)
Identity Quotes
As we got older, I didn't seem to exist, except in relation to her. (Prologue.2)
Rules and Order Quotes
"I want to sue [my parents] for the rights to my own body." (1.1.95)
Love Quotes
"Oh, Anna," my mother sighs, "how can you not know how much I love you?" (2.1.95)