How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
In my first memory, I am three years old and I am trying to kill my sister. (Prologue.1)
Okay, from the very first line of the novel, you know that there is going to be death hanging over everything, like a mobile over a crib… a mobile consisting solely of rotating grim reapers.
Quote #2
"What happens if you don't give your sister a kidney?"
"She'll die." (1.2.20-1.2.21)
Yep, things are serious—we're talking real life-or-death consequences here. Picoult doesn't pull any punches.
Quote #3
Kate is going to die. It took me a long time to be able to say that. We all are going to die, when you get down to it, but it's not supposed to be like this. Kate ought to be the one who has to say good-bye to me. (1.4.87)
Death is hard for anyone to accept, but the hardest might be a parent trying to accept the inevitable death of a child.