Bastard Out of Carolina Coming of Age Quotes

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Quote #10

What would I be like when I was fifteen, twenty, thirty? Would I be as strong as she had been, as hungry for love, as desperate, determined, and ashamed? (22.59)

Here we are, thinking about the future—not even the future as some vague fuzzy concept, but, like, the scary future you measure in birthdays. Why, at the moment that Anney leaves, is Bone thinking about her own adulthood?