How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
I would love my mother, but I would never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth teller, starting today. (35.103)
By the end, Evie has certainly toughened up and developed a more serious sense of identity. She's not going to just blindly follow what her parents tell her to do—she's planning to be her own person from now on, and that's a promise.