Key+QuotationsCreed

Quotes "Being that Sunday is the first day of the week, I guess Sunday was a fitting day for my life to start to crash." Chapter 2, pg. 13 "It struck me that Mrs. Creed must have seen the note. The cops wouldn't keep it from her. It was full of stuff about his parents being too strict, yet she gave her little speech in church on Sunday. She had looked so sincere, asking if anyone knew any reason why Chris would run away. I couldn't understand how the woman could see that note and be able to push the idea out of her head that she was at least partly responsible." Chapter 4, pg. 39 "I laughed because it was true. Leandra's heart was in the right place, but her mouth could take off like it had a life of its own sometimes." Chapter 5, pg. 48 "Richardson had sent Creed to the hospital, and the only other person in the world to do that was me. Nobody was wondering if I had killed Creed." Chapter 7, pg. 65 "I figured, him being a boon, that stuff like this went on in his neighborhood all the time. I guessed a minute later that I was way wrong." Chapter 8, pg. 76 "All of a sudden, I didn't know what to think. I never would have thought of Mrs. Creed as a murderer, but I never would have thought of Mrs. McDermott as a turbo slut. And I never would have thought of Bo Richardson as a courageous person." Chapter 8, pg. 80 "My head banged, though I was shaking so bad my mouth wouldn't move. I wanted to reach through the phone and kill her for making me piss myself. I was - total truth - feeling warm piss run down my leg, and it was making me crazy. It came clear to me what she could do to Chris if she could make me piss my goddamn pants." Chapter 9, pg. 91 "I knew we were in for it the next morning, about two seconds after I climbed on the school bus. Alex, Ryan, and Renee were staring at me all pop-eyed. I wanted so bad to not deal with them. But I had to make some attempt to act normal." Chapter 13, pg. 127 "Mrs. Creed sat down slowly on a couch under the window as Mr. Ames shut the door...She looked like listening was some sort of military pain-test that she was being subjected to, and she would endure it because she was a great American." Chapter 18, pg. 171 "I think half of it was a rational thought. If Chris Creed's body was found, just maybe there would be a huge suicide note in his pocket in his own handwriting. Or maybe whatever he used to kill himself had his fingerprints all over it. Or maybe a time of death could be determined, and if Bo and I were covered at that time...maybe, maybe, maybe. The psychic said I would be alone. Well, I was alone." Chapter 20, pg. 211 "//Chris Creed is alive. You can find him. You can help him, do something nice for him. He did not disappear to die; he disappeared to live.//" Chapter 22, pg. 227 "I seem to remember this theory that we're all dealt fifty-two cards by the end of our lives. If you get all aces in the beginning, you have a greater chance of getting your twos and threes in rapid succession later. And when we die (the dying part makes me think that the Church had something to do with this lesson), we stand up in front of God, sort of realizing that there are no greater lives, only greater beginnings, middles, or ends. And greater depths under lesser appearances." Chapter 22, pg. 228