How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
There is so much inner fright. I was born, I was told, with a mashed face and red and blue forcep bruises on my shoulders and arms but felt not one message of pain because I had no nervous system yet that could register any. But I knew what loneliness was. I was already afraid of the dark. Or the light. If I knew what cold and sleet were I would have been afraid of those too. (8.29)
Sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss. Slocum learned early on to fear loneliness, dark, light, and coldness. So what does that leave him with? Is he pretty much afraid of life itself? Does he have reason to be?