How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
You know that feeling you get when you walk into a room and the air feels thick and heavy and you know you were just being talked about? Well, that's what happened when I found Marco and Sophia, huddled together at the kitchen table, talking quietly. I instantly got the impression they were talking about me. And by the horrified expressions on their faces when they saw me, I assumed my impression was right. (6.8)
So Gemma's really gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to grandparents. Not only do her grandparents ignore her, they also talk about her behind her back. What kind of secrets are they hiding from her?
Quote #2
"Look, I don't know what you think you heard," Sophia said, her tone tolerant. "But we weren't talking about you. I know Alex's father, and I was just telling him to pass along a message for me."
My anger simmered. She was such a liar. "That's such bull. You were talking about me. I heard you." (9.105)
From all her eavesdropping, Gemma knows that Alex and Sophia know each other and have been talking about her—and she knows Alex is not supposed to get close to her. Why are they pretending like this isn't the case?
Quote #3
The inability to make eye contact was the first sign someone was lying.
"You're lying," I accused.
"No, I'm not," he said, his eyes still locked on the floor.
"Yes, you are," I insisted. "You can't even look at me." (14.29-32)
Gemma gets the feeling that Alex is hiding something from her when he tells her about how she has a star inside of her—like maybe he's keeping some important information back. What is he omitting… and why?
Quote #4
I searched for a sign that he was buying my lie. At first, he looked completely lost. Then his expression shifted to anger. Moments later, worry washed over his face. I felt his grip loosen on my hand, and I seized the opportunity. I yanked my hand as hard as I could, and his hand fell off mine. I was on my feet in a heartbeat, bolting for the door, ignoring the pain tearing up my side. (14.39)
Gemma believes everything that Alex is telling her, but that doesn't mean that she wants to stick around so he can continue to boss her around and tell her where she can't go. She tries to fake him out and make a run for it… but he's too fast for her.
Quote #5
"Nineteen." She tossed a skirt onto the bed. "Alex is actually twenty. We lied about our ages so we could enroll in school."
"Oh." The saying liar, liar, pants on fire ran through my head. Even something as simple as their age was a lie. It made me question how many more lies I was in store for. (16.102-103)
The fact that Alex and Aislin lied about their ages to get into high school doesn't seem like such a big deal to the sibling duo, but to Gemma, it's a sign that they're good liars. If they're lying about this, what else have they lied to her about?
Quote #6
"I mean it's none of them." Laylen dropped his fingers from his lip ring. "I needed to make an extra stop."
Oh boy. Here we go. Alex had been very specific about going straight there and straight back. And here we were, taking a detour. I squeezed my eyes shut and massaged the sides of my temples, waiting for all hell to break loose. (17.48-49)
Oh geez, Alex is totally going to fly off the handle. He can't deal with someone lying to him, especially when that person happens to be Laylen, who Alex obviously already has a thing against.
Quote #7
I tried to brush off the fact that Alex seemed disappointed that I showed emotion. Who cared what he thought. I could feel and that was all that mattered. Okay, well, that was a lie. But I was going to try my best not to focus on how Alex felt about me because, if I did, it would probably eat away at my insides. (20.29)
Gemma has to totally lie to herself in order to function around Alex. If she pretends that she finds him horrible and annoying, maybe she won't be so attracted to him.
Quote #8
I sat there for a second, confused about why I had to keep the necklace hidden. Then it hit me. Because I probably wasn't supposed to have the necklace to begin with and Alex didn't want to get in trouble for giving it to me. (34.8)
Alex is a very by-the-rules guy, especially when it comes to what his father tells him to do. But he can't help but give Gemma a little piece of something from her past—after all, she has no mementos of her mother at all.
Quote #9
Well, look at him. Pretending like he had never met me before. What a jerk. Now I’d love to be able to tell you that I spat every foul word that was running through my mind right in his face. But I didn’t. Just being there in the same room with him, I felt like I was suffocating, and my voice was getting strangled inside my throat. (34.12)
Ugh, Stephan is such a total liar: Of course he's met Gemma before. He's just pretending like they're meeting for the first time ever because he doesn't know that she sees right through his lies.
Quote #10
So not true, but I couldn't tell him that. "If the world's fate depends on that, then why are you working with the Death Walkers? I just don't see them being in on a plan that has anything to do with saving the world."
"What I do is really none of your business," he snapped. "But if you must know—they are working with me to protect the world." (36.36)
Um, would the Death Walkers really be interested in protecting the world? Gemma thinks that it's pretty obvious that Stephan is lying, but somehow Alex seems to believe in his explanations.