How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I knew this was wrong, and I knew I didn't care, but I was confused. No one had gone through the steps of this with me. I only had Margie in my head, nodding knowingly even though she didn't know anything.
He pushed up against me, against my skirt. This was it, this was the knowing. (20.81-82)
Okay, so maybe Evie's been warned a million times against being loose with her morals and virtue. But what does that mean, really? Evie has no idea. Apparently sex ed wasn't really a thing back in the 1940s.
Quote #8
"So I had to raise you alone—and let me tell you, it wasn't easy. Because I was pretty. I had a kid and no husband, and people's minds get dirty. The men look and the women talk and it doesn't matter how straight a line you walk. It makes you so… tired." (22.10)
Evie's always thought that her mom had it easier because she's so beautiful, but that's not the case at all. Because she's an attractive single mom, everyone looks at her with sex on their minds—they aren't fair in their judgments of her at all.
Quote #9
I felt a surge of the power my mother had. I could see that Wally wasn't thinking anymore. He was heading straight for what he wanted with a determination that was out of control, a train jumping the tracks and never losing speed. (23.27)
Finally Evie has the same kind of power that her mother does—she can make a man (or a boy, in Wally's case) lose himself to lust, so that he thinks of nothing else. Is that really what she wants, though?