How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"I was just thinking," [Grandma] finally said. "about Bernice. About how she always loved a trip. She and Eddie both, but Bernice especially." (10.27)
Grandma probably wouldn't have gone on her trip if she didn't reminisce about how much her daughter loved them. The past empowers her here.
Quote #5
I imagined Dottie unkissing me. Me traveling backward up the interstate in that Greyhound bus… Ma jumping back to the safety of her tollbooth. Arthur Music's truck speeding away from us in reverse. (14.204)
Dolores starts trying to change the past through her memories, but dwelling on the past like that doesn't help her at all.
Quote #6
[Geneva] talked about Ma and Daddy's wedding, how my parents had been so crazy about each other, how Ma had prayed to get pregnant. She talked on and on. (16.248)
Learning this about her Ma helps us realize how similar she and Dolores are. Dolores was crazy about Dante, and she super wanted to get pregnant. Like her Ma, she is human and flawed.