Family Quotes in Me Before You

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

She was so held in, so restrained. She made my own mother look like Ozzy Osbourne. (5.16)

The Traynor family is completely different from the Clark family, and nowhere is this more apparent than when we encounter the tightly wound Camilla Traynor. There's nobody like that in Lou's family.

Quote #5

More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress. (8.38)

The Traynors might have oodles of money, but that doesn't mean that everything is hunky-dory with them. As we can see here, Camilla resents her husband Steven for being absent in his children's lives—most likely because the dude is having affairs like a fiend. Frankly, we'd probably rather live in the Clark household.

Quote #6

There were many ways in which I disliked my sister. [...] But every now and then I was very glad indeed that she was my sister. (9.157)

Lou might resent Treena in many ways—and justifiably so, at times—but the two have a strong bond. They might fight over stolen belongings and beef like rival rappers, but they always have each other's backs when they need it. That's what being sisters is all about.