Quote 10
They would repent of their deeds.
And after that, learn to love one another again.
Open their souls. Open their veins. Wipe off their smiles.
Be a family. Stay a family. (68.12-15)
Cadence and the Liars decide that only tragedy, in the form of property destruction, will make the family stop fighting and come together. The problem is, though, they were never really together in the first place, and as long as there's money left, they never will be.
Quote 11
Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,
then from my eyes,
my ears,
my mouth. (2.19-22)
This is the first instance in the book of Cadence saying something that makes you go, "Wait, what?" It takes a few more paragraphs to figure out she's being metaphorical—but where do her metaphors end and her hallucinations begin?
Quote 12
My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. (11.9)
Cadence imagines a form of crying with her whole body in response to her grandmother's death.