How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I had to fix Mom and Joe. I'd done it before. The fights they'd had, even before they married, I could always fix them. Everybody had to go to the places they belonged. (22.22)
The most important thing to Evie is that the family they've worked so hard to cobble together stays together. Even though she's just a kid, she sees it as her responsibility to "fix" her parents' marriage.
Quote #8
Joe gripped my arms hard. "We're a family. What's that thing you and your mom say? We stick together like glue. Right?" He waited for my nod. "That's my girl." (27.34)
When Joe and Bev come back from their fateful boating trip without Peter, he plays off of Evie's love of her family in order to ask her to lie for them. Talk about setting a good example as a father figure… not.
Quote #9
"Do you remember right after I got back?" Joe asked. "We went to the city and saw a show and had dinner and came home and fell asleep, the three of us, on the couch, because we didn't want to go to bed?" (29.79)
Like Evie, Joe has this idealized notion of one big happy family—where they're all happy to be with each other all the time and everything is peachy keen, just like on television or in the movies.