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“It’s not that I miss my mother. It’s just that I miss the idea of what one would be” (222)

"And if we -- like the Fitzgeralds -- don't know what the right decision is, then the person who has to have the final say is the person whose body it is ... even if that's a thirteen-year-old" (Campbell, 407).

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded" (Kate, 422).

"It made me wonder why there wasn't a single guy in the school with dreadlocks, and I realized it wasn't because we couldn't stand out; it's because we didn't want to" (121, Campbell).