- "we knew them now" (212)
- The boys know so much about the girls, that even the paramedics' habits are analyzed: the way the skinny one drove, how his here tended to become oily, the lives they might have been living.
- "what some people heard us "Not you, too", and Mrs O'Connor who had acted in college, as, "But too cruel" (213)
- This sentence strongly connects with what we've been studying TOK: memory doesn't work like a video camera and people tend to remember details according to their general feeling about a certain person or place, which is why in the book, people had completely different memories about what the mother had said.
- "Like us.." (219)
- Here, the boys criticize the journalists and the community that after the sisters' deaths, act like they knew them perfectly. Also, the book's aim is to show how the girls had (at least at first), a normal life and because of this, how hard it is for them to find out why they committed suicide; what the reporters are saying is useless, because they only emphasize the ordinary part of the Lisbon's lives.
- The manuscript pages, "Putting them in to a pile, she lit them. We never knew what they were" (220)
- Question for the group: Do you believe these papers would have been crucial to find out about the girls intentions?
- "A spill at the River Rouge Plant.." (229)
- The Pollution of the city perfectly describes the state of the neighborhood: the smell and the dirty lake symbolize all the flaws of the society of the 1970, and some people in the book, claimed that the suicide of the sisters was what has led to its decaying.
- "..but if we were allowed.." (240)
- Here, we understand that after they've grown up, the boys have lost each other, as to show how the girls' existence and memory was what have kept them together
- (241)
- In this page, we have a better idea of how the boys have dedicated their entire adolescence (if not their entire lives), on recollecting memories, details, accounts of the 5 sisters.
What have kids got to worry about?