(Rosemary at the police station) Part 1 Chapter 2 I checked to be sure I’m a pretty good climber, for a girl. The bars went all the way to the top of the cell. (Rosemary at the county police station) Part 1 Chapter 2 I was made to remove my watch, shoes, and belt, and taken barefoot into a cage with bars and a sticky floor. (Rosemary, about Harlow and herself when they are arrested) Part 1 Chapter 2 The wildness I’d felt that morning had long since vanished and left something squeezed into its place, something like grief or maybe homesickness. She gave every indication of being an old pro at this. (Rosemary, viewing crows) Part 1 Chapter 1 Part 1 Chapter 2 Quotes I felt … a little migratory myself, just a little wild. To this day, the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.

Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. My father was himself a college professor and a pedant to the bone. My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep. (Rosemary, about her brother and sister) Part 1 Chapter 1 The middle of my story is all about their absence, though if I hadn’t told you that, you might not have known. By then, we’d long since dwindled to the family that old home movie foreshadowed – me, my mother, and, unseen but evident behind the camera, my father. So the middle of my store comes in the winter of 1996. Start in the middle then, he’d answer … (Rosemary, about her father) Prologue Part 1 Chapter 1 Quotes

… I have something to say! I’d tell him, and the door would stop midway. When you think of two things to say, pick your favourite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behaviour, and the rule was later modified to one in three.

We re all completely beside ourselves