I sat wrapped in a thick carpet blanket on the hard kitchen floor, trying my best to listen, but only being able to hear once, just as one cop whispered, “another fiend” to the other. I ain’t know that word, fiend.
-- Narrator (Prologue)

Importance: This is KB’s narration describing the day her father died. The words are notable not only because they establish the plot, but because they establish one of the key journeys KB goes through in the novel: trying to find out what has happened to her and those around her when adults will not clearly share information with her.

I think about Anne from my book, realize that Daddy act kinda like Marilla Cuthbert, who ain’t talk to Anne much at first. Problem is, ain’t no Matthew Cuthbert here who’s gon’ talk to me when Marilla won’t.
-- Narrator (Chapter 1)

Importance: Here KB describes her grandfather and her...