How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"I don't know," I said. "I move around a lot. So I hardly get to know anybody. It might be easier, but it's kind of lonely." (8.48)
Wow, talk about a cold dose of the truth. Mclean admits to Riley what she doesn't really tell anyone else: that she might act like moving around is cool and fun, but it's actually pretty lonesome.
Quote #8
I probably should have been creeped out, sitting in a cellar beneath an empty house, alone. But after a moment or two to adjust my eyes and my nerves, I realized Dave was on to something. (10.82)
Doesn't Mclean know that sitting alone in a dark cellar is how all horror movie heroines die? She'd be better off seeking some alone time in her big empty house—after all, it's not like she and her dad have moved in lots of their belongings.
Quote #9
I nodded, looking at Deb again. She was sitting so still, like at any moment someone might realize their mistake and tell her to go. It made me sad, not for now but for whatever she'd been through to make this so new. (11.93)
Man, Deb hasn't had the most fulfilling social life before Mclean came along, has she? It's like she's Cinderella wondering if, when the clock chimes midnight, she'll end up losing all of her friends in a purple cloud of dust.