We didn't talk about the grass literally being greener wherever I stood, or why the maple tree growing in front of our building stayed green much longer than any of the other trees on our street, or how the flowers I'd given her mom when she graduated nursing school had lived for almost a year.”
-- Bri (chapter 2)

Importance: Bri is has never talked about her power with her best friend even though it was impossible to ignore the situation. This is part of the reason Bri is open to the idea of going to Rhinebeck and why she tells Karter and Marie the truth about herself from the beginning.

You fixin' somethin' for somebody you love, for healin'. Gotta do it with your bare hands and your whole heart.”
-- Bri's Grandmother (6 )

Importance: Bri's grandmother is telling her how to concoct a remedy for Thandie's poison ivy outbreak. Though her grandmother is not a healer like Bri's...