How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I became terrified of him when he was angry. His face (angular and usually affable) would grow red, and he would shout, shout so loudly and furiously that it would, literally, paralyze me. I would not be able to think. (7.17)
Out of all the supernatural shenanigans he gets into, it's interesting that the thing that terrifies him the most is an angry dad. Maybe it's born out of the fear of disappointing him, or maybe just the threat of implied violence is enough to halt him in his tracks, but it's remarkable what kind of power being a parent confers.
Quote #5
I was horrified, but it was initially the horror of something happening against the established order of things. I was fully dressed. That was wrong. I had my sandals on. That was wrong. The bathwater was cold, so cold and so wrong. That was what I thought, initially, as he pushed me into the water, and then he pushed further, pushing my head and shoulders beneath the chilly water, and the horror changed its nature. I thought, I'm going to die. (7.69)
Ever see your teacher in the grocery store, and become inexplicably shy? Ever have to go into your school during the summer and have it feel completely foreign and strange? It's because you're going against the established order of things, and you can just innately sense how weird it is. Wearing sandals in the bathtub would feel oh so wrong—and having your father then try to drown you would definitely qualify as horrifying.
Quote #6
"I'm not afraid of you," I told her. I was afraid of her, more afraid than I had ever been of anything. (8.15)
This is such a common phenomenon that it's a popular horror movie trope. How many times have we heard a hero/heroine tell the evil-whatever that they're not afraid of them, when they're really wetting their pants in terror? Why is that such a common response? Does lying about it make the fear go away?