How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Whatever this has to do with my mother, I'd just as soon we keep her out of it," I said. "My mother was a saint!" (17.134)
Is Dolores reading the same book we are? Her mother may have been a decent person (especially considering all the other scumbags in this story), but she was hardly a saint. Dolores is rewriting the past here.
Quote #8
"I'll say one more thing, Dolores Elizabeth, and then, as far as I'm concerned, the subject is closed. I've buried a husband and two children—a nineteen-year-old son and a daughter who was only thirty-eight…" She paused, clearing her throat twice, and I suddenly realized she was crying. (21.93)
Going into the past isn't always a happy skip down memory freakin' lane. Grandma absolutely does not want to sit around and talk about the good ol' days, because they remind her of the bad ol' present.