How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
She would list all the things she would do—cut off her hair, cut off her arm, both legs, gain fifty pounds, two hundred, never have a boyfriend, never have anybody fall in love with her for her whole life, stand naked in front of her whole gym class—if she could just return to how it was before. (1.137)
When Wendy remembers the moment before she learned about the 9/11 attacks, she imagines all the things she would have traded in order for the attacks not to happen so she could still live in a world where her mother was safe and sound.
Quote #2
They kept showing the same pictures. The low plane. The crash. The building peeling down to nothing from the inside out. The people running. Firemen. The melted trucks. She wanted to freeze the picture so she could try to figure out what floor the plane had hit, but maybe that wasn't such a good idea. (3.40)
It's hard to forget about what happened to her mother when the news stations are showing the same footage over and over and again. Wendy can't help but feel sick and mesmerized as she wonders how her mother felt when it happened.
Quote #3
The only part left you could recognize. Only where the plaza used to be, where just last week Louie had practiced his skipping, there was nothing but a mountain of metal and dust. How high, she couldn't tell at first, until she made out the forms of a couple of men in orange vests in the middle of the vast expanse of rubble. (3.280)
Wendy remembers visiting her mother at the World Trade Center and seeing those huge buildings just a week earlier. Now there's nothing but rubble, little more than the memory of where they used to stand.