How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
It wasn't the first time I didn't know how to answer this. In fact, I'd taken pains over the last few years to have a different response every time… I knew anything I said would be drowned out. And maybe it was because no one could hear that I answered anyway. "I don't know," I said. I don't know. (7.47)
When Dave asks Mclean who in the world she is, she has to think about her answer—and the actual honest to goodness truth is that she has no idea anymore. She's going to have to take a rain check on that question.
Quote #8
Here, though, despite my best efforts, I'd somehow ended up behind myself again: Mclean Sweet, she of the messed-up parents and weird basketball connections, Super S***ty and a U-Haul's worth of baggage. All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real. (9.138)
How in the world did Mclean end up as… well, Mclean Sweet again? She tried pretty freaking hard to shed this name and to develop a thick layer of random personas to protect herself from having to be real and honest and raw.
Quote #9
But really, it was about six months, or a summer. It wasn't about the divorce, or all these moves, and all the girls I'd chosen to be. This time, more than any before, it was about me. About a life I'd built in not much more than a month, a town where I felt finally somewhat at home, and the friends I'd made there. (10.126)
When Mclean's mom brings in the lawyers, she panics—and not just because she doesn't want to get separated from her dad. It's also because she doesn't want to leave Lakeview since she's just started to feel like herself again after three years on the run.