How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Nothing I had ever drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that milk after I had forgotten about everything else. (2.58)
While it's a perfectly romantic notion, doesn't this seem a bit unlikely? Like, you really remembered some warm milk but you forgot all about the evil creature that was trying to kill you for a couple days? Hmm…
Quote #5
I was staring at the sole of my right foot. There was a pink line across the center of the sole, from the ball of the foot almost to the heel, where I had stepped on a broken glass as a toddler. I remember waking up in my cot, the morning after it happened, looking at the black stitches that held the edges of the cut together. It was my earliest memory. (5.4)
What a strange earliest memory to hold onto. What about this incident do you think makes it so memorable? Is it just the fact that he has a scar to remind him of it regularly? Perhaps it has something to do with the pain he must've felt too.
Quote #6
"If I burn this," I asked them, "will it have really happened? Will my daddy have pushed me down into the bath? Will I forget it ever happened?"
Ginnie Hempstock was no longer smiling. Now she looked concerned. "What do you want?" She asked.
"I want to remember," I said. "Because it happened to me. And I'm still me." (9.89-91)
That's pretty awesome if you ask us. If you had the choice to completely forget one of your worst memories, would you do it? It shows huge strength of character to decide that you want to remember something as horrible as your father trying to kill you, because you can recognize that it is part of what has shaped you as a human being. You go, kid.