How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #10
She told us honestly that we couldn't be expected to believe anything we hadn't seen with our own eyes. There would be no films, no demonstrations, no statistics, unless we asked for them. We trundled out of the elevator into an armored car waiting in a barn, and across an unpaved, shell-pocked plain, a sort of no-man's-land, in the middle of the night. Is the grass growing? Is that a virus blight? Are the mutated strains taking over? Nothing but gravel, boulders, space, and stars. (8.7.1)
Jael and Joanna each get to act as tour guides in their worlds, but their ways of showing visitors around are very different. Hidden inside their quarantine suits, Janet, Jeannine, and Joanna are like flies on the wall in Jael's world. Like those of us reading, they're able to watch events unfold without being actively involved.