I was raised to keep family matters private.
-- Maddie (One)

Importance: This quote opens the novel in the first paragraph, and is repeated five times throughout the novel. This quote shows what is stopping Maddie from sharing her feelings and problems with others. It also resonates with the theme of Mental Health, as Maddie’s predilection to keep her feelings bottled up.

I love you, too.
-- Maddie's Father (One)

Importance: This quote from Maddie’s father to Maddie is repeated throughout the novel as Maddie thinking about it. Her father says this to her as Maddie leaves for work for the day, and is only the second time Maddie remembers her father saying he loved her in her lifetime. Maddie thinks of this often when thinking of her father. By the end of the novel when Maddie is talking to her father instead of praying to God, she continues in this form of conversation as if they...