How we cite our quotes: Chapter.Paragraph
Quote #1
I never liked hearing about how I came into this world anyway. It didn't seem natural, a live baby coming out of the body of a dead woman. Gigi said it was the greatest miracle ever to come down the pike. (1.1)
Let's just take a minute here and look at what happened to Sissy for what it is: a tragic decision to end her life brought about by the pressures of being forced to give up her dream. For the selfish reason of managing her own guilt, though, Gigi creates an alternate reality where Sissy's death is an accident that led to Miracle's, well, miraculous birth. Still, pretending the events were different doesn't make her version real.
Quote #2
I told Dane I loved it even though I had only read the last page. It was the first book I'd ever owned that didn't end with "And they lived happily ever after." (1.7)
It's interesting that Miracle has never read Dane's book, but is taken by the fact that it doesn't have a fairytale ending. In being impressed by this, do you think Miracle hints that she's not impressed by the fairytale-esque story she's been told about her own birth?
Quote #3
"But where does melting take you? What place?"
"Oh, some other time, some other place," Gigi said, her right hand fiddling with the crystal she had hanging around her neck. "Wish I could tell you more, but that's the way melting works. It's a vague kind of thing, one of those mysteries of life scientists and spiritualists and other ists are always trying to figure out." (3.29-30)
Can we be real here for just a minute and make it abundantly clear that people don't melt? Maybe we, as readers, are already aware of this, but Gigi's so unwilling to face the reality of Dane's disappearance that she has to craft an elaborate story to explain it.