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How fiercely they gripped each other's pink-and-white bodies, forming a hot little circle of such rib-crushing love and understanding it took my breath away...All eight of their eyes shut tight as if this collective asphyxiation were a kind of religious bliss. All four of their glossy mouths making squealing sounds of monstrous love that hurt my face.
-- Samantha
(chapter 1)
Importance: This quote captures Samantha's utter disdain for the Bunnies in vivid detail as she watches the women engage in excessive acts of affection at the welcome back party at Warren. Their hugs are depicted in violent terms, which both signal Samantha's rage and foreshadow the horrors to come in the rest of the novel. This description also highlights the fact that Samantha sees the Bunnies as an amorphous blob, indistinguishable from one another, as "All eight of their eyes" and "All four of their glossy mouths" seem to act in unison.
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-- Samantha
(chapter 3)
This section contains 1,570 words (approx. 4 pages at 400 words per page) |