| Quote #1 The waiting room was full |
Here Elizabeth makes a distinction between herself and the other people in the waiting room. They're "grown-ups"; she's definitely not one of them.
| Quote #2 and while I waited I read |
Elizabeth sounds like a smarty-pants here. She's not even seven years old and she can already read a magazine for adults. She seems pretty proud of this.
| Quote #3 I said to myself: three days |
She reminds herself of her age here as if to calm her crazy thoughts. It's like she's saying, I'm too young for such big ideas!