How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Because my best efforts otherwise, Mclean already had a story here. She was the girl who'd discovered Dave on the back porch, then taken refuge in his hideout. The girl at the party, the girl Deb welcomed in her own spazzy freaker style. She was not the same Mclean I'd been for the first fourteen years of my life. But she was Mclean. (3.94)
For the first time in the past two years, Mclean gets to be… well, Mclean. This may not sound like a big deal to you, but for our shape-shifting protagonist, it marks a huge change. It's kind of scary to be herself for the first time ever.
Quote #5
"Well the truth is, Dave's changed a lot since he transferred here. I think it's a good thing, because he's, like, a real person now. But it freaks his folks out. I think they liked it better when he was just like them, completely under their control." (4.82)
Dave isn't putting on a front or becoming a bad boy now that he's enrolled at a public school—he's just discovering who he is away from his parents' stuffy scientist upbringing.
Quote #6
In real life, she wore rain boots, had dirt under her nails, and squelched around in the garden mud, picking aphids off of the tomato plants one by one.
Now, though, my mom looked exactly like Katherine Hamilton, high-profile coach's wife. (7.5-6)
Whatever happened to Katie Sweet? That's what Mclean wonders every time she sees the new, glossy, rich version of her mom. It's not the mom that she remembers growing up with, and she resents how different she looks now.