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“I pull the door open quickly, like ripping off a Band-Aid” (206).

Maddy was very nervous to walk out of the bathroom with a bathing suit on.  The simile suggests that just as you would quickly rip a bandaid off, she opened the door very quickly so she wouldn’t back out of it.

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“My head is foggy with sleep but my heart is awake and racing” (164).

Right before a huge fight with Olly’s family happens, she wakes up to the house being all lit up.  The personification suggests that her heart is awake and racing, but a heart can’t literally be awake from a “nap”or be running in a race.

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“Did the cake just commit suicide?” (35).
The cake was sitting on the windowsill and plopped forward.  The personification suggest that the cake did not literally commit suicide, but rather fell over by itself.  This shows where Maddie’s mind can go.

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“A single breath and my life will finally, finally explode” (22.)

Maddie is implying her illness here.  She is implying that because of all the excitement, she is breathing faster and faster, to the point where she is exaggerating that her like will “explode.”  The idiom suggests that her life will not literally explode, but is saying something that doesn’t exactly mean that.  She means she is very excited

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"The house trembles and my books vibrate on the shelves" (16.)
Maddie has never been out of her house before, so she doesn’t really know what a moving truck sounds like.  The personification suggests that since she is not aware of many sounds, she imagines what they could be and how they could feel.