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an old man that stooped like he was carrying each of his years on his back.
each new brick laid right on top of his childhood, on the memories he so desperately needed to hold on to.
“I just wish there was a middle, you know. Because that’s where people live. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing … sink or swim like that. Most people just tread water, and that’s enough. Because when you’re sinking, you’re pulling us down with you.”
stooped shoulders, like pride had slid right from him.
None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done.
“You wish for what you want and pray for what you need.”
“The minister said we begin at the end. It would have made for easier years if I thought for one second Sissy was somewhere better than a small wooden box. I try though, every Sunday I try.”
If the good stand by idle, are they still good?”
“We begin at the end, Duchess.”
There was
There was a chance they had it right, that Milton had done what Martha said. Maybe Vincent was institutionalized, or maybe he just hated himself so much that he’d rather be put to death than go on living as a free man.
“Fair means someone is in control.”
“Maybe you don’t choose who you get to be. Maybe it’s predefined. Some of us are outlaws. Maybe we find each other,”
Star believes “the universe finds a way to balance the good and the bad” (chapter 8, here). Thinking about the story, do you agree with her?
Does each character get the ending they deserve?
Why do you think the author named this book what he did? Does the title fit the book? Why or why not?
