How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"It was Belle's choice," he was saying, "to go live the old-timey ways with Everett's clan. We went to see her, your granny and me, but she never made us feel welcome. Then she took to hiding from us when she saw us coming.
"'Tell them I died,' she'd say to Everett. Just being sassy, you know. But Everett would repeat to us what she said. And it hurt your granny's feelings so bad, she'd cry." (13.49-50)
Poor Granny and Grandpa. They love their daughter Belle so much, but she's basically rejecting her whole family because of what Love and Amos did to her. She doesn't want them in her life anymore, no matter how much they want to mend fences.
Quote #5
"After your daddy died, she started coming to visit once in a while, and your mama took you up there to play with Woodrow occasionally. I thought maybe Belle and Love would make up and be friends, like sisters should be, but it never happened." (13.53)
Belle never fully forgives Love, though the sisters start to see each other again occasionally. They never regain the closeness they used to have as kids because neither of them can let go of the past.
Quote #6
I left Woodrow alone for a while, went home to undo my pigtails and wash my hair, then searched him out. He was inside the tree house, cutting out personal ads from some old Sunday newspapers he had saved and placing the ads carefully inside my jewelry box, where we had commenced keeping our treasures.
"You sore at me, Woodrow?"
"Naw. I ain't sore." (14.1-3)
Woodrow can forgive and forget even when something is a big deal, like Grandpa and Gypsy speculating about Uncle Everett's involvement in Belle's disappearance. He can even forgive his mother for leaving him without a word. That's some impressive compassion this kid has.