The Family Upstairs Quotes

Lisa Jewell
This Study Guide consists of approximately 120 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Family Upstairs.

The Family Upstairs Quotes

Lisa Jewell
This Study Guide consists of approximately 120 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Family Upstairs.
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Even her name is fake. She is a ghost. A living, breathing ghost.
-- Narrator (chapter 8)

Importance: Lucy has been living as a homeless woman with no real identity to claim for her own. She illegally came into France without a passport or any sort of documentation showing who she is. Because of this, she cannot hold a regular job and has depended on her busking for an incredibly small income. Nobody knows her real name or anything about her past, not even her ex-husband and her two young children. However, this anonymity makes Lucy difficult to trace, which will help her get away from Michael for good.

I could tell I was different. Completely different. There was no one like me there and I had fantasies about going to the big school and finding myself surrounded by people like me. Everything would be better at the big school.
-- Henry (chapter 9)

Importance: Even at a young age...

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