Figurative Language Yaqui Delgado Chapters 1-21

"I'm like one of those African elephants that finds her way home, no matter how far she's roamed" (43).

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"Joey Halper is sitting on the stoop, eating a frozen Popsicle, even though the October cold is biting through my jacket" (43).

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"It's a beehive of gossip and harmless arguments shouted over the sound of dryers" (60).

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"She turns to me. 'Tell me the truth: I bet the boys die for you.'" (63).

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" 'Clara would tear the skin from my bones if she knew'" (68).

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"Yeah, DJ's a mind-erasing miasma, and it's eating my brain" (70).

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"I don't even know I'm in big trouble until it has swallowed me whole" (71).

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"My trouble might be contagious, and no one wants to catch this social disease" (72).

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"The beat in my head is threatening to split my skull wide open" (77).

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"I reach for my necklace to comfort myself, but of course it's not there. It's like a phantom limb on a soldier" (82).

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