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If you break little promises you'll break big ones. (page 34)

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"I wish I was with my mom.
He didnt answer. He sat beside the small figure wrapped in the quilts and blankets. After a

while he said: You mean you wish that you were dead.
(page 55

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After a while he said: you mean you with you were dead" (55).

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"We're not survivors. We're the walking dead in a horror film." (page 55)

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"The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He
got up and went to the window. What is it? she said. He didnt answer. He went into the bathroom and
threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone.
(page 52)

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"I'm sorry, he said. But we have nothing to
give him. We have no way to help him. I'm sorry for what happened to him but we cant fix it. You
know that, dont you?
(page 50)

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"He's going to die. We cant share what we have or we'll die too" (52)

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The clocks stopped at 1:17
pg 52

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"He shielded the glare of it with his hand and when he did he
could see almost to the rear of the box. Human bodies. Sprawled in every attitude. Dried and shrunken
in their rotted clothes.
(page 47)

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The boy kept pulling at his coat. Papa? He said.
Stop it.
Cant we help him Papa?
No. We cant help him. There's nothing to be done for him. pg 50

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"We cant stay, he said. It's getting colder every day. And the waterfall is an attraction. It was
for us and it will be for others and we dont know who they will be and we cant hear them coming. It's
not safe.
(page 42

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"But there's not any more states?" (pg 43)

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"It was for us and it will be for others and we dont know who they will be and we cant hear them coming. Its not safe" (42)

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The thin drum or rain on the metal roof and the slow darkness falling over everything. Pg 45

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"Human bodies. Sprawled in every attitude. Dried and shrunken in their rotten clothes" (pg 47).

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Onogwu                   Wow, the boy said.He couldnt take his eyes off it.He squatted and scooped up a handful of stones and smelled them and let them fallclattering. Polished round and smooth as marbles or lozenges of stone veined and striped. Blackdisclets and bits of polished quartz all bright from the mist off the river. The boy walked out andsquatted and laved up the dark water. (page 37)

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Onogwu                   Wow, the boy said.He couldnt take his eyes off it.He squatted and scooped up a handful of stones and smelled them and let them fallclattering. Polished round and smooth as marbles or lozenges of stone veined and striped. Blackdisclets and bits of polished quartz all bright from the mist off the river. The boy walked out andsquatted and laved up the dark water. (page 37)

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"There's nothing we could have done" (51).

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"I had this penguin that you wound up and it would waddle and flap its flippers. And we
were in that house that we used to live in and it came around the corner but nobody had wound it up
and it was really scary. (page 34

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We can't stay, he said. It's getting colder every day. And the waterfalls an attraction

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"These are our roads, the black lines on the map. The state roads" (pg 42).

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"We're the walking dead in a horror film" (pg 55).

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"No list of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later."

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Do you want to go in?
I don't know.
Sure you do.
Is it okay?
Come on.
pg 38

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"Wow the boy said. He couldn't take his eyes off of it" (pg 37).

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"If you break the little promises, you will break the big ones" (page 34)

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"Death is not a lover" (pg 57)

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"Ghostly pale and thin. The boy so thin it stopped his heart" (38.

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"All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us" (pg 35).

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Pg 34
I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.
I know.
If you break little promises you'll break big ones. That's what you said.
I know. But I won't.