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"'But I will never do that confined to this life, the personality defects I've been cursed with, the lack of abilities, the strain. I wish no malice on anyone. I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM'" (Plum-Ucci 28).

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"'You watch. Next spring sometime, somebody's going to whip back the tarp on their swimming pool, clear away the brown water, and see Creed with a cinder block roped around his chest. His eyeballs, like, totally rotted through'" (Plum-Ucci 22).

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"I think Chris snapped. I think he flipped out from a combo of everything. School, being lonely...(Plum-Ucci 35).

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"He did start to leave me alone more after that. In fact, he got kind of serious toward the end of summer. Serious and quiet" (Plum-Ucci 187).

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Look at Matthew's room, Chris's room, then Justin's room. Notice anything funny?,,, Same furniture Same type of desk, dresser, mirror" (Plum-Ucci 92).

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“Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?” (Plum-Ucci 233).

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"Richardson had sent creed to the hospital, and the only other person in the world to do that is me" (Plum -Ucci 65)

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"Yea. That kid had no privacy. Sounds like the type of mom who would, like, read you're diary" (Plum-Ucci 37)

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"Justin told them that the night before Chris disappeared, Chris and his mom had had an argument. It was over his privileges, or the lack of any" (Plum-Ucci 240).

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"'I know that people wish I were dead, and at this moment in time I see no alternative but to accommodate them in this wish'" (Plum-Ucci 27).

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"Mrs. Creed would rather believe her own son is dead than believe she is at fault. I would never have imagined that a human being was capable of so much denial." (Plum-Ucci, 233)

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"I was still laughing. 'Oh my god. I would keep that story under my hat. Because if you don't, everyone's going to be digging for Creed's treasure in a few weeks and keeping me awake all night" (Plum-Ucci 81).

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"But he was still trying to get attention, like always. Look at the things he's saying...'life and luck and liberty'? What a crock. I'm surprised he saw himself with so much truth. He always wore that from from hell" (Plum-Ucci 59)

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"'His mom goes in there and, like regiment-cleans it, as if she's running the Air-Force on there'" (Plum- Ucci 37).

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"We used to catch him doing that, then torture the guy until he cried, It got to be a game with some of us, to see if we could make him cry" (Plum-Ucci 23).

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""I've hit him before," Bo said, "I've hit him hard a couple times before... coming to me all,  'Bo! guess what?' Blah blah blah. Like I hadn't beat the 🤬 out of him three weeks ago"  (Plum- Ucci, 103-104)

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"We used to catch him doing that, then torture the guy until he cried. It got to be a game with some of us, to see if we could make him cry" (Plum-Ucci 31).

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“While radically negative families can, obviously cause more overt trauma, a ‘slightly weird’ family can have more lasting effects over a lifetime, effects that are harder to untangle because of their subtleties" (Plum-Ucci 329).

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"One time I hit Creed that I totally forgot about. Can you believe I hit him twice and totally forgot about the second time" (Plum ucci 79).

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"I imagined Mrs.Creed, like, sitting on the bed and crying or something. She's looking for something. She goes through his drawers, his mattress; she even pulled the whole rug up as far as the bed last night" (Plum Ucci 89).

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"I'm surprised he saw himself with so much truth. He always wore that grin from hell... Even if you were yelling at Creed , that grin stayed" (Plum Ucci 59).

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"'It was over his privileges, or the lack of any. Mrs. Creed was saying she would decide what privileges her children had, and that was the end of the story" (Plum Ucci 240)

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¨Why do people have so much more trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else´s?¨ (Plum Ucci 233)

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¨I cant help it. I laughed again. Ali its like he lived on another planet¨ (Plum ucci 163)

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¨Great place to get a sense of individuality. You´ve really got a shot of having your own identity at that place huh? ¨ (Plum Ucci 93)

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"I'm not sure how many people would have actually wanted Creed dead, but still, if he heard, Why don't you drop dead? once, he probably heard it a thousand times" (Plum-Ucci 38).

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"I'm sure their parents will be buying them cars next year, while I still be riding my bicycle until my parents decide I'm old enough. Quite possibly, I'll be twenty-five" (Plum-Ucci 37).

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"How come one of [the kids at school] couldn't have been nice to him?" (Plum-Ucci 162)

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"I would have killed my mom for being n my stuff like that.'
'Yeah. The kid had no privacy"(Plum-Ucci 50)

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"Quote from Novel" (Author's Last Name #).

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"'As long as kids could make a joke out of it, then it meant nothing serious could happened. It couldn't happen to them, couldn't even touch them'" (Plum Ucci 112)