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“Your car is your portable home.” (Keagan 144)
I really like this quote because it shows she gives personality to her more personal items.

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“It knows what happened when Allie went to Puerto Rico, understands the difference between the way I look at Nick and the way I look at Adam, and remembers the first time I experimented with talking to myself.” Meaning/Purpose

In this quote Keegan is referring “it,” to her car. This shows that she understands that her Camry obviously isn’t a living thing, but still makes it seem like it is a when she explains what it knows and witnessed.

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“Above this newspaper are the fingernail marks I dug into the leather of my steering wheel on the night we decided to just be friends.” I choose this because it has lots of detail and it describes how frustrated, angry and sad she was all at the same time after her boyfriend broke up with her.

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“Yet one Wrigley’s wrapper led to two and soon enough my car underwent a radical transformation— the vehicular equivalent to a midlife crisis,” (Keegan 144). I liked this quote because she talks about how her car changed as her life changed.

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“My 1990 Camry’s DNA was designed inside the metallic walls of the Toyota Multinational Corporation’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan”. The reason I chose this quote is because it is very descriptive and you can imagine this in your head.

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“Parts of my life began falling off, forming an eclectic debris that dribbled gradually into every corner.” I think this is a meaningful quote because it describes how when someone changes, their priorities change and something that might have been incredibly important to them, they don’t care about anymore so it just “falls off” their life.

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"Thousands of words and songs and swears are absorbed in it’s fabric.” I chose this quote because I recently got my license and I can relate to this a lot.

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“Above this newspaper are the fingernail marks I dug into the leather of my steering wheel on the night we decided to be just friends”. I like this quote because you can clearly understand that Marina did not want to be just friends and it still has permanent scar on her heart. I like how the author showed this through the car being permanently marked too.

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“ My cars love for parking tickets made me an easy target, but I rarely received other violations”
She described her car and gave it life and meaning

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“The car saw me as that friend from school, the bad example who washes away the naïveté and corrupts the clean and innocent.“ I like this quot because it personified the car and made it seem like they are friends and Marina is the bad influence.

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“The task was strange, like deconstructing a scrapbook, and peeling all the pictures and writing out the captions.” (148) I chose this quote because I liked how I could visualize Keegan cleaning her car out like she was taking apart a scrapbook

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“My brother laughed at my nostalgia, reminding me that I could still drive the car when I’m home.”
I chose this quote because I think it helps the message of the story which is that everyone has memories of certain objects, and we should cherish them.

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“For my grandmother, it was a symbolic goodbye.” I like this quote because we all have items in our lives that, other people just view as a item, but we view it as a symbol of memories.

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“Ravaging my car I found more than just physical relics.” I chose this because it shows that her car held more than just the objects inside it. It also held the memories that happened in it. It held a lot of meaning, more than just the amount it was worth.

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“The task was strange, like deconstructing a scrapbook, unpeeling all the pictures and whiting out the captions.” I can relate to this because sometimes if I am going through old things I can remember all these memories from the past and it makes me happy and sad at the same time.

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“Thousands of words and songs and swears are absorbed into its fabric just like the orange juice I spilled on my way to the dentist.” I enjoy this quote because it shows a simile comparing her words and songs to spilled orange juice which also makes it funny to read.

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“My mind was feee to wander, my muscles to relax. No one was watching or keeping score.”

I choose this quote because it spoke out with a message, showing how much someone loves an object that it can become a place where they can relax and feel safe.

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“Thousands of words and songs and swears are absorbed in its fabric, just like the orange juice Inspilled on my way to the dentist”(147). I chose this quote because I like how she didn’t just  use  some random comparison for her simile but a personal experience of hers that happened to her.