26.) My karma ran over my dogma.
(pg. 222; this bumper sticker introduces a chapter.)
27.) You can take a road that gets you to the stars. I can take
a road that will see me through.
(pg. 238; this quote by Nick Drako introduces a chapter.)
28.) Do you think it's easier to be mad at people you trust?
. . . Why is that?' . . . Because you trust that they'll love you anyway.'
(pp. 237-238; Lena and mother discuss the idea of love and trust.)
29.) What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you
say.
(pg. 242; this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson introduces a chapter.)
30.) She would just stay here holding Bailey's hand for all time,
so Bailey wouldn't be afraid that there wasn't enough of it.
(pg. 251; this shows Tibby finally coming to comfort Bailey as she lays
dying.)
31.) All Moanday. Tearday. Wailsday. Thumpsday. Frightday. Shatterday.
(pg. 253; this quote by James Joyce introduces a chapter.)
32.) If I could meet you again, at a different time under different
circumstances, I could let myself worship you the way you deserve. But
I can't now.'
(pg. 265; Eric tell bee this as a way of apology for what had happened
between them.)
33.) Is there world enough for me?
(pg. 266; this quote by Jane Frances introduces a chapter.)
34.) Tibby . . . felt equal parts awe for Bailey and disappointment
in herself. All she'd ever noticed about Angela were her fingernails.
(pg. 272; this shows how Bailey saw in others so much more than just their
appearances while Tibby had to learn to have that kind of empathy.)
35.) In you eyes I am complete.
(pg. 279; this quote by Peter Gabriel introduces a chapter.)
36.) Maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob
or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if you friend was possibly dying.
Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
(pg. 282; Tibby comes to this conclusion when she thinks about
what happiness really is.)
37.) She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make
her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep
playing.
(pg. 288; Tibby comes to this conclusion after Bailey dies.)
38.) We will go nowhere we know. We don't have to talk at all.
(pg. 291; this quote by Beck introduces the final chapter.)
39.) Still the Pants promised us there was time. Nothing would
be lost. There was all year if we needed it. We had all the way until
next summer, when we would take out the Traveling Pants and, together
or apart; begin again.
(pg. 294; this is Carmen's final commentary on what the Pants have brought
to their friendship.)
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