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...e shows the relationship between Codi and her sister, telling us taht she would rather loose an eye than loose her sister. Allthough I think this is ture or just about evarybody on the planet, it is ispecailly important to the book because of the loss of her sister later. " I had no visual memory of my mother, and could not recall any events that included her, outside that helicopter trip that she declined to take. But I could remember a sense of her that was strong and ferociously loving. Almost a violence of love. It was the one thing I'd had, I suppose, that Hallie never knew." Page 49 In this quote Codi is giving us some insight into her past and what she does and does not remember and how that is looked upon by the "Accepted" version of what happened to her mother. This quote shows the lonleyness of her loosing her mother, and whal she neaver rally knew her, she felt her allways. This is allso important to the book because in later chapters she comes to reaize that all along she was in the feild when the helacopter came for her mother, even though Doc. Homer and the rest of the town told her that she wasen't. This shows that she can recall her past, even though she says she can't. "I froze up, like one of those ridiculous squirrels that darts one way and then the other and is doomed to end up as road kill." Page 51 In this quote Codi is crossing the street and with our looking almost gets run over by Loyd Peregrina. This quote shows her mortality and her lack of control of it. I think she is feeling like I do sometimes, like I am not in control of my own life. This bothers me a lot because I don't like the idea that I am not in control of my own destany. " Do you know how much sulfuric acid they put in the river? He said the EPA give Black Mountain thirty days to shut down that leaching operation." Page 69 In this quote Codi overhears some old men talking about fruit drop and why it is happening. This quote shows that "He appeared not to have heard me. I knew he had. Doc. Homer never argued, He just didn't participate in a conversation that didn't please him." Page 73 In this quote Codi is talking to Doc. Homer in their old house, while he is doing his pictures. "I glared at them; teenagers are so attached to their immortality. "You never know where you're going to end up in this world do you?" I asked. Page 82 In this quote Codi is talking to her class trying to grab there attention. "we'd played together before male and female had meaning" Page 102 In this quote Codi is telling us about her relationship with J.T. "I would write Hallie and ask her advice on how to turn adolescents onto a organisms that had no appreciable sex life." Page 109 In this quote Codi is telling us how she is always asking questions about life to her sister Hallie. "I touched my fingertip to some vagrant bread crumbs scattered across the table. Because his back was turned I had courage to ask the question point blank." Page 155 In this quote Codi is talking to Doc. Homer, and is trying to ask him about how he feels about her. " He has to look at her for a long time before he trusts himself to speak, who is this girl? His daughter Codi, but which Codi? He thinks." Page 169 In this quote Doc. Homer is thinking about how to answer his daughter when she comes to see him when is doing lab work for a patent. " Your own family resemblance's are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least." Page 174 In this quote Codi is talking to Viola and thinks this when she is trying to discover her roots. "A woman in the emergency room on my first night of residency, stabbed eighteen times by her lover." Page 190 In this quote Codi has visions when she and Lloyd are taking about game birds. " As we drove out of grace she gasped for air, wide eyed like a hooked fish. " I can't believe I am doing this,: she kept saying. Turn the truck around, I can't go. I drove westward, ignoring my hostage. " What, you think J.T doesn't know how to take care of his own sons?" "No," she said, staring at the center line. " I'm afraid I'll come back and find him dead on the kitchen floor with a conquers of the castle arrow stuck on his head and a fistful of hostess ding dongs." Page 193 In this quote Codi an Emelina are going on a trip to Tucson with the stitch and bitch club. Emelina is worried about her family. "Hallie what can I never put a finger on is the why of you and me. Why did you turn out the way you did? Your my sister. We were baked in the same oven with the same ingredients. Why does one cake rise and the other fall?" Page 199 In this quote Codi is writing to Hallie and is asking her how to be brave. "We'd gone to the movies and eaten at McDonald's which by Grace standards is the high life. We ordered happy meals; she was collecting small plastic replicas of impossible-looking vehicles for her boys." Page 202 In this quote Codi is talking about her trip with Emelina to Tucson and how they were living it up. "Wind battered the windows and we warmed our hands at the heater vents and talked about everything under the sun." Page 216 In this quote Codi is talking about being in Lloyds cold truck and they warmed up as they drove across the land and through the ravines. Forbidden to all those that were not native to it. " The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, which is commonly presumed infinite." Page 227 In this quote Codi is talking about the huts and the village of Santa Rosalia Pueblo. " She says I'm lucky to have gotten such a big, strong girl. She thinks I'm lazy" Page 229 In this quote Lloyd is telling Codi what his mother had said in native tongue when she first met Codi. " She's like a special aunt. She's the one that cuts the cord when you're born, and she helps your mother get up out of bed when she is ready. They count that as your birthday-the day your mother gets up" Page 231 In this quote Codi asks Lloyd what a navel mother is. " As the twig is bent, so grows the tree, Doc. Homer used to say, Referring mostly to the bones of structure of the feet but it applied to moral life as well" Page 233 In this quote Codi is talking about her father having a bad childhood and that is what she thinks hurts him. " Especially since we're still here sleeping on god's couch. We're permanent house guests." Page 240 In this quote Codi is talking with Lloyd about Prayer and how Codi thought it was a glorified business transaction, and Lloyd tells her otherwise. "Your life is the test. If you flunk this one, you die" Page 254 In this quote Codi tells her Biology class when Marta asks her how much of the poetry that she has been talking about will be on the test. "If I badgered him enough, I kept thinking, he would have something more to tell me, but he couldn't remember anything." Page 257 In this quote Codi is thinking about how to get more answers about her sister being kidnapped from her father, who has no more information about it than she does. "She pronounced the names musically and slowly, drawing out the syllables and rolling the R's. They were the names of fairy princesses, but the story, in her high, sustained voice, was biblical. It was the genesis of Grace." Page 267 In this quote Codi is telling us about how Dona Althea is telling the T.V people about the roots of grace. "It surprised me to see how a meaningless phrase ...