How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
There's people jumping, he said. The fire trucks are melting.
From her desk, a girl named Sandra, who never talked, began to cry. Several people put their heads down on their desks. One girl started getting the dry heaves, but not the one who'd said she was going to throw up. She was already gone. (3.9-10)
When Wendy hears about the people jumping from the towers, she knows this isn't going to end well—there's a real possibility her mother won't make it out of the World Trade Center alive.
Quote #2
Now the face in the picture was her own slim, beautiful, laughing mother. She knew the face better than anybody's except her own. Only now, for the first time, it struck her that her mother looked different. Not quite like her mother anymore, but almost like someone who used to be her mother. (3.162)
When Wendy and Josh put up flyers of her mother all over New York City, she realizes this is the first time her family's had to confront the fact that they might not all be around forever. It's scary and strange.
Quote #3
He was doing the rounds of hospitals again. A lot of families who were missing someone were going over to the armory on East Seventy-third Street to give the workers there hair samples and dental records, but when his sister suggested that, he looked as if he might murder her, and she didn't bring it up again. (3.210)
The mere idea that Janet might not be alive anymore is horrible to Josh, and he refuses to even entertain the possibility. In fact, he won't let anyone else talk about it at all—not even his own sister.