"I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head."(pg 81,82)
This quote basically summarizes how Melinda feels in the first two marking periods. We can tell that she is depressed. She really wants to tell the secret to someone and get it out of her head.
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