Quotes from "White Oleander" by: Janet Finch
"I knew we shouldn't have come. Now I wished she hadn't broken any of her rules. I understood why she held them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers explodingi n your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July."
"She doubled over, pressing her forearms against her chest.'I press it within my body,' she said. As the earth presses a lump of prehistoric dung in heat and crushing weight deep under the ground. I hate him. Hate. I hate him.' she whispered this last, bur ferociously. 'A jewel is forming inside my body. No, it's not my heart. This is harder, cold and clean. I wrap myself around this new jewel, cradle it within me.' "
"She doubled over, pressing her forearms against her chest.'I press it within my body,' she said. As the earth presses a lump of prehistoric dung in heat and crushing weight deep under the ground. I hate him. Hate. I hate him.' she whispered this last, bur ferociously. 'A jewel is forming inside my body. No, it's not my heart. This is harder, cold and clean. I wrap myself around this new jewel, cradle it within me.' "