How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I wish I could talk to my mother about things like this because I don't really believe a lot of the kids know what they're talking about, at least I can't believe all the stuff they tell me. (17.1)
This won't be the first time we hear Alice wishing she could talk to her mother. The thing is, though, on which end is their communication failing? Has she approached her mom with this stuff and gotten shut down? Or has she not even tried?
Quote #2
Boy, Mom would be proud of my thinking and attitude today. It's just too bad we can't communicate anymore. I remember being able to talk to her when I was little but it's as though we speak a different language now and the meanings just don't come across the right way. She means something and I take it another way or she says something and I think she's trying to correct me or "uplift" me or preach at me and I really suspect she isn't doing that at all, just groping and being as lost with words as am I. That's life, I guess. (32.2)
Quote #3
Oh, I'm so horribly, nauseously mixed up and—what if I'm pregnant? Oh, how I wish I had someone, anyone, to talk with who knows what they're talking about. (53.5)
How different would this book be if it were written in the age of the Internet? So many of her existential dilemmas could've been solved by Google…