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why doesn't the author use quotations

"Her eyes are still wet but she is no longer crying. Without thinking, I reach over and wipe a tear from her eyelash. She closes her eyes briefly at my touch."

I know what they are

"That’s what I’ve called him for the last year, if I had to call him anything. Who are you going to the cinema with? Keeley and Keeley’s Boyfriend. I have thought of him as a possession of hers, a glaring new accessory that I hoped she would tire of and discard as soon as it was no longer fashionable."

real

i am not feeling this main character, so judgy abt what her neighbors are doing and comparing them to her family like tf