How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I watched you and wondered for several endless minutes if it would be best for you if the swing were to fly over the top, if you were to fall and crack your head open and die, so you didn't have to grow up with Nikki in charge. (28.20)
Well, that's dark. Sometimes, Matthew really does think that they'd all be better off dead instead of subject to Nikki's whims. He hates living in a world where she's in charge of every little thing that they do.
Quote #8
"She wanted me to see her," Murdoch told me. We were walking the causeway. "She wasn't hiding. When I'd see her, she'd catch my eye and wave. I remember, one time, she nearly sideswiped me on Route 2, and then she blasted the horn like crazy." (32.7)
Nikki isn't exactly the subtlest stalker. Instead of acting anonymously, she brazenly parades herself around Murdoch—restraining order or not. She wants him to know that something as silly as the law can't hold her back.
Quote #9
And how would she get along with the other prisoners? Would she get hassled, or could she defend herself? I honestly didn't know. Just because I found her formidable didn't mean that she really was. She was slender, pretty. Not physically strong. (35.17)
Nikki seems all-powerful to the Walsh kids, but Matthew realizes that she probably doesn't seem that way to everyone else. In prison, she might even be at a disadvantage because she's small.