Quotes
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove.” (p. 43)
→ Coming of Age
“The only thing you have to do in life is die”, said Mrs. Pinsky. This was one of her favorite sayings. “Everything else is a choice.” (p. 48)
→ Advice, Hope
“I gathered up my books and left the house, not knowing then that I would cross that threshold only a few more times in my life.” (p. 79)
→ Foreshadow
“My friendships were disintegrating. Thing were coming apart. It was rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.” (p.92)
→ Foreshadow
“It must have grown harder for her with each passing week as the earth continued to slow and the days continued to expand.” (p. 108)
→ Adaptation
“And he was right: I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all around us right in plain sight.” (p. 119)
→ Advice, Hope
“We took more risks. Desires were less checked. Temptation was harder to resist.” (p. 130)
→ Coming of Age
“You can’t blame everything on the slowing,” she’d say. People are responsible for their own actions.” (p. 130)
→ Adaption
“And we were missing certain other valuables, too: our way of life, our peace of mind, our faith.” (p. 175)
→ Metaphor,
“They were preparing for a time of monsters, it seemed to me, but the monsters were only the neighbors, maybe even their friends.” (p. 183)
→ Personification
“It was as if the two of us had learned to travel back in time to someplace simpler were the rules of chronology and consequence, of action and reaction, were different, more diffuse, less sure.” (p. 255)
→ Coming of Age
“But the past is long and the future is short.” (p. 268)
→ Advice, Hope
→ Coming of Age
“The only thing you have to do in life is die”, said Mrs. Pinsky. This was one of her favorite sayings. “Everything else is a choice.” (p. 48)
→ Advice, Hope
“I gathered up my books and left the house, not knowing then that I would cross that threshold only a few more times in my life.” (p. 79)
→ Foreshadow
“My friendships were disintegrating. Thing were coming apart. It was rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived.” (p.92)
→ Foreshadow
“It must have grown harder for her with each passing week as the earth continued to slow and the days continued to expand.” (p. 108)
→ Adaptation
“And he was right: I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all around us right in plain sight.” (p. 119)
→ Advice, Hope
“We took more risks. Desires were less checked. Temptation was harder to resist.” (p. 130)
→ Coming of Age
“You can’t blame everything on the slowing,” she’d say. People are responsible for their own actions.” (p. 130)
→ Adaption
“And we were missing certain other valuables, too: our way of life, our peace of mind, our faith.” (p. 175)
→ Metaphor,
“They were preparing for a time of monsters, it seemed to me, but the monsters were only the neighbors, maybe even their friends.” (p. 183)
→ Personification
“It was as if the two of us had learned to travel back in time to someplace simpler were the rules of chronology and consequence, of action and reaction, were different, more diffuse, less sure.” (p. 255)
→ Coming of Age
“But the past is long and the future is short.” (p. 268)
→ Advice, Hope
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