How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"With most people," [Dr. Hornicker] said, "suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty." (5.41)
Dr. Hornicker sees a lot of reasons for the sisters' suicides. But whereas in Russian roulette a person has a 5-out-of-6 chance of survival, Dr. Hornicker's convinced that the Lisbon girls had a 0% chance. Too many things were wrong in their lives and their DNA.