One Crazy Summer Quotes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of One Crazy Summer.

One Crazy Summer Quotes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of One Crazy Summer.
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He said seeing Cecile was something whose time had come. That it had to be done.
-- Delphine (Cassius Clay Clouds paragraph 9)

Importance: When the novel begins, Delphine and her sisters are traveling to see their mother for the first time in seven years after their mother abandoned them. It is a trip insisted on by Pa, saying it is time for them to reestablish contact, and because Pa knows that young girls need a mother in their life.

Cecile Johnson – mammal birth giver, alive, an abandoner – is our mother. A statement of fact.
-- Delphine (Secret Agent Mother paragraph 4)

Importance: Delphine was five when Cecile left, so she is old enough to have some memories of her mother, and what a mother is supposed to do. Cecile’s leaving is a betrayal, and so Delphine especially detests her mother. The only way Delphine considers Cecile to be a mother is biologically, and in no other way.

I didn’t send for you. Didn...
-- Cecile (Green Stucco House paragraph 21)

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