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“Pia ran home. Thinking about Santi. How the boy was just mad Santi was a better skater than he was. Pushed her into the street. Thinking about himself. Oncoming traffic.” P.56

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“The other Low Cuts watched Bit the hustler, Bit who could turn ninety cents into nine bucks—into ice cream—turn into a son. A son who was scared. A son who loved him mom” (40).

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“He just sat on the curb and watched but pretended he wasn’t watching as Pia kicked harder than usual, sailing over the asphalt, grinding her board against the curb, scraping it like she hated it, almost violently. Attempting tricks she knew she couldn’t do, rocketing to the ground over and over again. Then getting back up, getting back on, ignoring Marcus’s fake chuckles.” (pages 52-53)

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“To walk to the cemetery to visit Santi’s grave and ask her questions, hard questions, about boys” page 57

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“Everything in their lives and their parent lives live off track financially.” (21)

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“She still would’ve kicked down the hall, dashing through the crowd on her skateboard, ignoring all the teeth smacking and slick talk and Ms. Wockley yelling, ‘No skating allowed!’ Feeling that freedom she was used to… Ms. Brooke calling Pia’s name to ask her to explain what some old guy she never her of meant in a story she never read but was supposed to read just because Ms. Broome said she was supposed to read it.”

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“Ms. Burns looked at them, her face was both cloudy and sunny, her skin absent of her normal brown. Bits mom had relapsed.” (40)

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“…a joke told by a kid named Andrew Knotts, who, after Bit heard it… let’s just say Andrew never cracked those kinds of jokes again.”

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Because she knew where his mothers black eyes come from
I think this quote causes pias conflicts because marcus is dad is abusive causing him to pick up those trait and bully others leading to pias skate board to break

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Pia ran home. Thinking about Santi. How the boy was was just mad Santi was a better skater than he was.

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“Bit would knock heads, no question”

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On page 40 it states “the other low cuts watched Bit the hustler, Bit who could turn ninety cents into nine bucks-into ice cream-turn into a son a son who was scared a son who loved his mom.”