How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I took to watching myself in the mirrors to see what other people saw, to puzzle out just what showed them who I really was. What did Daddy Glen see? Aunt Raylene? Uncle Earle? (14.5)
What does Bone expect to see when she looks in the mirror? She has some pretty negative opinions of herself, both in terms of the person she is inside and how she looks on the outside. But why is she thinking about Glen here? It's easy to forget, sometimes, that Bone might actually want Glen to love and respect her, and that she might care what he thinks about her. He is her stepfather, after all. This makes the abuse that much worse: Bone even wonders if there is a reason Glen has singled her out (that is, she wonders if there is something wrong with her).
Quote #8
The look in his eyes was a match for the one I'd seen in Earle's, the one I imagined in my own (15.31)
Hooray for Boatwright solidarity, even if it's criminal. Right? At this moment, Bone likes that there is something she feels she has inherited from her family. That's not always the case, of course: take a look at the next quote.
Quote #9
I was a Boatwright there for sure, as ugly as anything. I was a freshly gutted fish, my mouth gaping open above my bandaged shoulder and arm, my neck still streaked dark with blood (21.9)
Okay, so if we list the criteria for being a Boatwright, we come up with 1) being ugly and 2) getting into bloody situations. It sounds like Bone is being sardonic here about what her beat-up appearance says about the family she comes from (see our "Writing Style" section for more on what we mean by "sardonic).