How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I looked for Murdoch for the rest of my thirteenth year. The first thing I did was go back to the convenience store to ask the teenage clerk if he had seen that man before, or if he knew whether he lived nearby, or if he knew anything at all about him. (4.1)
When Matthew and Callie first see Murdoch, they are immediately obsessed. Not in a creepy way, but they just want to find him and get to know him because he's like a hero. They'll do anything to hunt him down.
Quote #2
It took my breath away, that final name. I sat there for a while, remembering how Callie had helped me with science homework that year. My homework should have been over her head. (10.8)
It shocks Matthew when he realizes that Callie wants to become a doctor at some point. He's been consumed with making sure that they survive, but Callie has dared to dream bigger. She wants to work hard and really make it in life.
Quote #3
"You're still hoping, like Emmy. But you know what? Murdoch's not some superhero who's going to swoop in and change everything. That dream is over. Our life is what it is. Don't you see? It's getting dangerous to go on dreaming that it's going to be different." (18.34)
Callie doesn't approve of Matthew's hope that things will get better, and she thinks that it's dangerous to see their life as anything other than what it is. They're bound to get hurt if they believe that adults will actually care about them.