How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"I'll not unsay them. I'll say them again. You are an inveterately bad girl, and a false sister, and I have done with you. For ever, I have done with you!" (10.15.138)
Way harsh, Tai. Charley can't accept Lizzie's rejection of Mr. Headstone, so he decides to break with her once and for all. He doesn't want to see her or speak with her anymore, which strikes us as a trip to Crazytown.
Quote #8
As for the children of the union, their experience of these festivities had been sufficiently uncomfortable to lead them annually to wish, when out of their tenderest years, either that Ma had married somebody else instead of much-teased Pa, or that Pa had married somebody else instead of Ma. (11.4.3)
The wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfer is always an awkward occasion. It's so awkward that their two daughters wish they hadn't married one another in the first place. Which is surprising, considering that these daughters wouldn't exist if their parents hadn't gotten together.
Quote #9
"I wish I had never brought him up. He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water. Look at him. There's a pretty object for a parent's eyes!" (13.10.12)
Jenny Wren has a weird relationship with her father, to say the least. She speaks of her father as though he's her son, and the longer the book goes, the weirder this family dynamic is. The father is basically such a drunk that his mental age is somewhere around eight for most of the book. So Jenny, being a teenager, takes it upon herself to treat him like a child.