So people here are mean. No big deal. People are mean everywhere.
-- Jessie (chapter 3)

Importance: This quote highlights Jessie's relative difficulty in acclimating to a new high school in LA, and serves as a kind of internal narrative for Jessie that helps her justify the behavior of her new classmates. Having been thrust into an unfamiliar world, she doesn't immediately understand the norms of LA culture, but takes a small degree of comfort in knowing that meanness, at least, is a universal trait and therefore something familiar, even if it is negative. She also uses this quote to diminish Gem's bullying behavior toward her and thus begin acclimatizing herself to Wood Valley.

One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those ties you didn't ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you'd have all the time in the world.
-- Jessie (chapter 4)

Importance: This quote highlights Jessie's abrupt, forced...