“When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the garbage pails, I’d go retrieve them” (Walls 173).

“Later that night, Dad stopped the car out in the middle of the desert, and we slept under the stars” (Walls 18).

“She’d been reading books on how to cope with an alcoholic, and they said that drunks didn’t remember their rampages, so if you cleaned up after them, they’d think nothing had happened. ‘Your father need to see the mess he’s making of our lives,’ mom said. But when dad got up, he’d act as if the wreckage didn’t exist, and no one discussed it with him. The rest of us has to get used to stepping over broken furniture and shattered glass” (Walls 112-113)

“She had gone into convulsions, and her body had become stiff and wet with sweat. But Dad didn’t trust hospitals, so he took her to a Navajo witch doctor who cut open the wound and put a dark brown paste on it and said some chants and pretty soon Lori was good as new”(Walls 13).

“When that happened, mom would refuse to got out of bed, even when Lucy Jo showed up to drive her to school, honking impatiently”(Walls 207).