How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"I want $1,000."
"I could give you $700."
[…] I'd take whatever Lyle Wirth gave me, because otherwise I was looking at a real job, real soon, and I wasn't up for that. (1.114)
At least Libby is honest about her laziness, right? She knows she only has one skill to capitalize on, and that's selling her sob story.
Quote #5
You could leave with $2,000 easy. (1.116)
You can practically hear the ka-ching sound effect and see dollar signs in Libby's eyes when Lyle gives her this figure. She immediately starts a mental inventory of everything she can sell. The combination of cash and the word "easy" is too much for her to resist.
Quote #6
[Ben] had no money. Correction, he had $4.30 in his pocket, but that was it for him, for this week. His family had no money saved. They had a bank account that was always just short of empty—he'd seen a statement once where the balance was literally $1.10, so at one point his entire family had less in the bank than what he was carrying in his coat right now. (4.9)
Libby isn't the only one with money problems. In the flashback chapters, we see that issues with money run in the family. Just as Libby is primarily motivated by money, so is Ben.