Tell Me Three Things

by

Julie Buxbaum

Jessie Holmes is the novel’s 16-year-old protagonist. Two years ago, Jessie’s mom died and about a month before the novel begins, Jessie’s dad remarried and moved Jessie from Chicago to Los Angeles. Jessie initially hates Los Angeles. She was happy and comfortable in Chicago with her best friend, Scarlett, and she’s still reeling with grief from her mom’s death. Jessie thinks often of her mom and what it’d be like to still have her around. This happens especially as Jessie considers where she lives in Los Angeles. Her stepmom, Rachel’s, house is expansive, pristine, and white—and Jessie feels like a guest in it, not like a family member. This only heightens Jessie’s sense of loneliness, which is why, after she experiences bullying at the hands of a popular girl named Gem at school, Jessie accepts help from SN, a boy who anonymously emails Jessie offering to help her. As Jessie’s online relationship with SN takes off and becomes increasingly close, she also develops in-person friendships with classmates Dri and Agnes and does her best to listen attentively to them and be a good friend. Despite having a few friends, Jessie remains a target for bullying in part because she’s obviously middle class—and she’s one of the only middle-class kids in all of Wood Valley High School. Unlike her peers, Jessie has to get a part-time job and hope to earn a college scholarship if she wants to attend college at all. Things begin to unravel for Jessie as she attempts to figure out who SN is and as Liam, Gem’s boyfriend and Jessie’s coworker, breaks up with Gem and expresses unrequited interest in Jessie. Though Rachel buys Jessie a ticket to Chicago trying to help, Jessie is surprised to find out that she doesn’t feel at home in Chicago or with Scarlett, either. Jessie does come to the realization that she hasn’t listened to Scarlett at all since she moved away, something that helps her understand that listening is what keeps friendships alive. Back in Los Angeles, Jessie is thrilled to discover that SN is Ethan—in both his personas, Ethan makes Jessie feel seen and as though she belongs.

Jessie Holmes Quotes in Tell Me Three Things

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Chapter 2 Quotes

And only later, when I got to my actual homeroom and had to stand up and do the whole summer vacation thing all over again in front of another twenty-five kids—and utter the words “Smoothie King” for the second time to an equally appalled audience—did I realize I had a large clump of grass stuck to my ass.

On reflection, the number of people who may have sensed my desperation? At least fifty, and I’m estimating on the low side just to make myself feel better.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Liam Sandler, Caleb
Page Number: 14
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Chapter 4 Quotes

Spelled out in black-and-white: Reason #4,657 why I don’t fit in here. My dad’s not a film marketing mogul, whatever the hell that is; he’s a pharmacist. Back home we were far from poor. We were what I knew as normal. But no one had their own credit cards. I shopped at Target or Goodwill with saved-up cash, and we wouldn’t just buy a five-dollar coffee without first doing the unfortunate math and realizing that the drink cost almost an hour’s worth of after-school pay.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad
Page Number: 32
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Chapter 5 Quotes

The problem was that Mom wasn’t here. That she would never be anywhere again. When I thought about that for too long, which I didn’t, when I could help it, I realized it didn’t matter much where I slept.

Certain facts tend to render everything else irrelevant.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom
Page Number: 38
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“My dad died of lung cancer,” Theo says, apropos of nothing, and takes another long hit. “That’s why I smoke. Figure if you can run twelve miles a day and get cancer anyway, I might as well live it up.”

“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”

“I know, right?” Theo puts out the joint, carefully saves what’s left for later. He stands up and looks me straight in the eye. No trace of his temper tantrum left. “Hey, for what it’s worth, I’m really sorry about your mom.”

“Thanks,” I say. “Sorry about your dad.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Theo (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom, Theo’s Dad
Page Number: 47
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Chapter 6 Quotes

This is intimate, and not in the way it was at dinner, when Rachel put her hand on my dad’s, a gesture that on reflection seemed more for Theo’s and my benefit. Now, they are bent together, forehead to forehead, and there’s a photo album I’ve never seen before open on their laps. Must be Rachel’s. Is she showing my dad her before pictures? Her dead husband?

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 51
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Chapter 7 Quotes

“You know how it is. Mean girls get mean in seventh grade and they stay that way until your ten-year reunion, when they want to be best friends again. At least, that’s what my mom says.”

“It’s funny how high school is high school everywhere,” I say, and smile at Dri. Try not to feel uncomfortable at the mention of moms, like it didn’t set off an invisible flare in my chest. “I mean, this place is completely different than where I come from, but in some ways it’s exactly the same.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Adrianna Sanchez/Dri (speaker), Gem, Jessie’s Mom, Crystal
Page Number: 59
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Chapter 11 Quotes

She looks to me to back her up, and I wonder if my existence is a problem for her friendship with Agnes. Scar and I always sat alone at lunch. We weren’t really interested in talking to anyone else. To be honest, I’m not sure how I’d feel if she had invited some new girl to sit with us. Dri not only invited me, but did so excitedly.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett, Adrianna Sanchez/Dri, Agnes
Page Number: 90
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Chapter 12 Quotes

Will I, one day, be able to sleep with a guy and not feel horribly awkward and tortured and not wonder what it all means? I assume so. But right now, the thought of that sort of exposure seems unimaginable, and mostly, if I’m totally honest, nothing short of terrifying.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Scarlett, Adrianna Sanchez/Dri
Page Number: 99
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Chapter 13 Quotes

SN: how long ago?

Me: 765 days, five hours, twenty-two minutes. You?

SN: 196 days, one hour, three minutes.

Me: You count too?

SN: I count too.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman (speaker), Jessie’s Mom, Xander
Page Number: 114
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Chapter 15 Quotes

“So that’s how I lost my virginity. It counts, right?” Agnes asks me, and I decide that maybe I’ve been too quick to judge her. She’s funny and super honest and willing to laugh at herself. I get now why she and Dri are best friends.

“I vote yes,” I say, because it’s a hell of a lot closer than I’ve ever come to having a penis inserted into me.

“But Dri’s right too. I totally got half peened. How about you?” Agnes asks so casually it’s like she’s asking what my favorite subject is.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Agnes (speaker), Adrianna Sanchez/Dri
Page Number: 125
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For a moment, I think it would be preferable to listen to them have sex. This is somehow more intimate, more raw. Even worse than witnessing her midnight tears.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 130
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“You think they’re going to get a divorce?” Theo asks, and it surprises me that my heart sinks at the thought. Not because I particularly like living here, but because we have nothing to go back to. Our house is gone. Our Chicago lives. [...] When Rachel told my dad to not come back, did she expect me to leave too? Are we kicked out?

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Theo (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 132
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Chapter 17 Quotes

“They’re both idiots.”

“Stop it.”

“They are. They thought they could just insert replacement here and forget that someone they loved actually died. Even I’m more emotionally mature than that.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Theo (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 150
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Chapter 19 Quotes

No, I don’t want to leave, but I don’t want to feel like this either. Like an interloper in someone else’s home. If I do throw up today, which is more likely than not at this point, I don’t want to have to worry about soiling Rachel’s bathroom. I don’t want to feel in constant danger of eviction.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 175
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Chapter 21 Quotes

We are sitting outside during our free period, our faces tilted up toward the sun like hungry cartoon flowers. I now have sunglasses—Dri and Agnes helped me pick out a knockoff pair—and I love them. They feel transformative, like I’m somehow a different person with large squares of plastic covering my face.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Adrianna Sanchez/Dri, Agnes
Related Symbols: Sunglasses
Page Number: 191
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And at least one mystery has been solved: Gem can do or say whatever she wants because her dad pays off the administration. I guess that’s what a little tax fraud buys you.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Gem, Mrs. Pollack
Page Number: 191
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Chapter 24 Quotes

There aren’t pictures of him around, which would be weird, but then I realize there aren’t very many pictures at all. [...]

The walls of my old house were covered with pictures of my family. Each of my school photos were framed and mounted in chronological order, even the ones where I was caught with my eyes closed [...]

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom, Theo’s Dad
Page Number: 221
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Chapter 25 Quotes

When I come home to find Rachel in my room, I remember that this is not my room at all. This is Rachel’s guest room, and my sleeping here confirms what I already know: I am merely an interloper.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 226
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Chapter 27 Quotes

I will tell her about the mess I’ve made of things, how my new life feels on the verge of unraveling, and she will tell me how to fix it. [...]

And she’ll remind me that everything that is new always feels tenuous, that a lot of this, maybe even most of this, is in my head.

In T minus four hours, I will be home again. Even though my mom won’t be there, at least, finally, I will be someplace I recognize.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett, Jessie’s Mom
Page Number: 247
Explanation and Analysis:

For a moment, I switch things around: think about what it would have been like if Scar had been the one who took off and I’d been the one left behind. What it would have been like to start all over with the people we have known forever. All of those people we had already chosen, for one reason or another, not to be friends with. Until now, it has never once occurred to me that my leaving happened to anyone but me.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett
Page Number: 250
Explanation and Analysis:

I turn off my phone. Run up the stairs to the small bathroom. Throw up my DeLucci’s pizza and six cans of beer and don’t even feel the tiniest bit of nostalgic relief when I see Scar’s map of the world shower curtain or even the Cat in the Hat soap dispenser that has been there for as long as I can remember.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Scarlett
Page Number: 257
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Chapter 28 Quotes

And as stupid as it is, I admit I think about SN that way too. Not Caleb, not the real-life version of SN, but the one on my screen. The one who is always there for me.

He’s not real, of course. We’re all better versions of ourselves when we get that extra time to craft the perfect message. The SN I know and obsess about can’t translate into real life. He’s a virtual soul mate, not a real one. I do realize that.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Scarlett, Caleb, Adam Kravitz
Page Number: 261
Explanation and Analysis:

“I think he’s Liam.”

“No way,” I say.

“It explains why he would dump Gem for you.”

I smile at Scar but not because any part of me hopes SN is Liam. [...]

“You’ve been listening,” I say, and feel so grateful she’s still my friend, that she will be, hopefully forever.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Gem, Liam Sandler
Page Number: 268
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Chapter 33 Quotes

I think about the life I’ve built here. SN and Ethan, or maybe SN/Ethan, Dri and Agnes, even Theo. Liam too, I guess. How my new English teacher said I’m one of her brightest students, which is a huge compliment, considering I go to a school that sends five kids to Harvard each year. How Wood Valley may be filled with rich brats, but it also has a beautiful library, and I get to work in a bookstore, and I’m reading college-level poetry with a boy who can recite it back to me. In a strange way, thanks to Rachel, LA has turned out to be nerd heaven.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad, Liam Sandler, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Adrianna Sanchez/Dri, Agnes, Mrs. Pollack
Page Number: 304
Explanation and Analysis:

This is a house full of pain, of bad juju, as Theo said, but it’s also a house of starting over. Maybe we need to light a few candles. Better yet, start putting things on all of the white walls. “You know, I mean, this place is beautiful, but maybe you should put out some pictures too. Of your husband—I mean your, uh, other husband, Theo’s dad, and of Theo as a kid. So he can remember.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom, Theo’s Dad
Page Number: 312
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Jessie Holmes Quotes in Tell Me Three Things

The Tell Me Three Things quotes below are all either spoken by Jessie Holmes or refer to Jessie Holmes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2 Quotes

And only later, when I got to my actual homeroom and had to stand up and do the whole summer vacation thing all over again in front of another twenty-five kids—and utter the words “Smoothie King” for the second time to an equally appalled audience—did I realize I had a large clump of grass stuck to my ass.

On reflection, the number of people who may have sensed my desperation? At least fifty, and I’m estimating on the low side just to make myself feel better.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Liam Sandler, Caleb
Page Number: 14
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 4 Quotes

Spelled out in black-and-white: Reason #4,657 why I don’t fit in here. My dad’s not a film marketing mogul, whatever the hell that is; he’s a pharmacist. Back home we were far from poor. We were what I knew as normal. But no one had their own credit cards. I shopped at Target or Goodwill with saved-up cash, and we wouldn’t just buy a five-dollar coffee without first doing the unfortunate math and realizing that the drink cost almost an hour’s worth of after-school pay.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad
Page Number: 32
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 5 Quotes

The problem was that Mom wasn’t here. That she would never be anywhere again. When I thought about that for too long, which I didn’t, when I could help it, I realized it didn’t matter much where I slept.

Certain facts tend to render everything else irrelevant.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom
Page Number: 38
Explanation and Analysis:

“My dad died of lung cancer,” Theo says, apropos of nothing, and takes another long hit. “That’s why I smoke. Figure if you can run twelve miles a day and get cancer anyway, I might as well live it up.”

“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”

“I know, right?” Theo puts out the joint, carefully saves what’s left for later. He stands up and looks me straight in the eye. No trace of his temper tantrum left. “Hey, for what it’s worth, I’m really sorry about your mom.”

“Thanks,” I say. “Sorry about your dad.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Theo (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom, Theo’s Dad
Page Number: 47
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 6 Quotes

This is intimate, and not in the way it was at dinner, when Rachel put her hand on my dad’s, a gesture that on reflection seemed more for Theo’s and my benefit. Now, they are bent together, forehead to forehead, and there’s a photo album I’ve never seen before open on their laps. Must be Rachel’s. Is she showing my dad her before pictures? Her dead husband?

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 51
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7 Quotes

“You know how it is. Mean girls get mean in seventh grade and they stay that way until your ten-year reunion, when they want to be best friends again. At least, that’s what my mom says.”

“It’s funny how high school is high school everywhere,” I say, and smile at Dri. Try not to feel uncomfortable at the mention of moms, like it didn’t set off an invisible flare in my chest. “I mean, this place is completely different than where I come from, but in some ways it’s exactly the same.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Adrianna Sanchez/Dri (speaker), Gem, Jessie’s Mom, Crystal
Page Number: 59
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 11 Quotes

She looks to me to back her up, and I wonder if my existence is a problem for her friendship with Agnes. Scar and I always sat alone at lunch. We weren’t really interested in talking to anyone else. To be honest, I’m not sure how I’d feel if she had invited some new girl to sit with us. Dri not only invited me, but did so excitedly.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett, Adrianna Sanchez/Dri, Agnes
Page Number: 90
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12 Quotes

Will I, one day, be able to sleep with a guy and not feel horribly awkward and tortured and not wonder what it all means? I assume so. But right now, the thought of that sort of exposure seems unimaginable, and mostly, if I’m totally honest, nothing short of terrifying.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Scarlett, Adrianna Sanchez/Dri
Page Number: 99
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13 Quotes

SN: how long ago?

Me: 765 days, five hours, twenty-two minutes. You?

SN: 196 days, one hour, three minutes.

Me: You count too?

SN: I count too.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman (speaker), Jessie’s Mom, Xander
Page Number: 114
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

“So that’s how I lost my virginity. It counts, right?” Agnes asks me, and I decide that maybe I’ve been too quick to judge her. She’s funny and super honest and willing to laugh at herself. I get now why she and Dri are best friends.

“I vote yes,” I say, because it’s a hell of a lot closer than I’ve ever come to having a penis inserted into me.

“But Dri’s right too. I totally got half peened. How about you?” Agnes asks so casually it’s like she’s asking what my favorite subject is.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Agnes (speaker), Adrianna Sanchez/Dri
Page Number: 125
Explanation and Analysis:

For a moment, I think it would be preferable to listen to them have sex. This is somehow more intimate, more raw. Even worse than witnessing her midnight tears.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 130
Explanation and Analysis:

“You think they’re going to get a divorce?” Theo asks, and it surprises me that my heart sinks at the thought. Not because I particularly like living here, but because we have nothing to go back to. Our house is gone. Our Chicago lives. [...] When Rachel told my dad to not come back, did she expect me to leave too? Are we kicked out?

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Theo (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 132
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 17 Quotes

“They’re both idiots.”

“Stop it.”

“They are. They thought they could just insert replacement here and forget that someone they loved actually died. Even I’m more emotionally mature than that.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Theo (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 150
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 19 Quotes

No, I don’t want to leave, but I don’t want to feel like this either. Like an interloper in someone else’s home. If I do throw up today, which is more likely than not at this point, I don’t want to have to worry about soiling Rachel’s bathroom. I don’t want to feel in constant danger of eviction.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 175
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 21 Quotes

We are sitting outside during our free period, our faces tilted up toward the sun like hungry cartoon flowers. I now have sunglasses—Dri and Agnes helped me pick out a knockoff pair—and I love them. They feel transformative, like I’m somehow a different person with large squares of plastic covering my face.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Adrianna Sanchez/Dri, Agnes
Related Symbols: Sunglasses
Page Number: 191
Explanation and Analysis:

And at least one mystery has been solved: Gem can do or say whatever she wants because her dad pays off the administration. I guess that’s what a little tax fraud buys you.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Gem, Mrs. Pollack
Page Number: 191
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 24 Quotes

There aren’t pictures of him around, which would be weird, but then I realize there aren’t very many pictures at all. [...]

The walls of my old house were covered with pictures of my family. Each of my school photos were framed and mounted in chronological order, even the ones where I was caught with my eyes closed [...]

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom, Theo’s Dad
Page Number: 221
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 25 Quotes

When I come home to find Rachel in my room, I remember that this is not my room at all. This is Rachel’s guest room, and my sleeping here confirms what I already know: I am merely an interloper.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife
Page Number: 226
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 27 Quotes

I will tell her about the mess I’ve made of things, how my new life feels on the verge of unraveling, and she will tell me how to fix it. [...]

And she’ll remind me that everything that is new always feels tenuous, that a lot of this, maybe even most of this, is in my head.

In T minus four hours, I will be home again. Even though my mom won’t be there, at least, finally, I will be someplace I recognize.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett, Jessie’s Mom
Page Number: 247
Explanation and Analysis:

For a moment, I switch things around: think about what it would have been like if Scar had been the one who took off and I’d been the one left behind. What it would have been like to start all over with the people we have known forever. All of those people we had already chosen, for one reason or another, not to be friends with. Until now, it has never once occurred to me that my leaving happened to anyone but me.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett
Page Number: 250
Explanation and Analysis:

I turn off my phone. Run up the stairs to the small bathroom. Throw up my DeLucci’s pizza and six cans of beer and don’t even feel the tiniest bit of nostalgic relief when I see Scar’s map of the world shower curtain or even the Cat in the Hat soap dispenser that has been there for as long as I can remember.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Scarlett
Page Number: 257
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 28 Quotes

And as stupid as it is, I admit I think about SN that way too. Not Caleb, not the real-life version of SN, but the one on my screen. The one who is always there for me.

He’s not real, of course. We’re all better versions of ourselves when we get that extra time to craft the perfect message. The SN I know and obsess about can’t translate into real life. He’s a virtual soul mate, not a real one. I do realize that.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Scarlett, Caleb, Adam Kravitz
Page Number: 261
Explanation and Analysis:

“I think he’s Liam.”

“No way,” I say.

“It explains why he would dump Gem for you.”

I smile at Scar but not because any part of me hopes SN is Liam. [...]

“You’ve been listening,” I say, and feel so grateful she’s still my friend, that she will be, hopefully forever.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Scarlett (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Gem, Liam Sandler
Page Number: 268
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 33 Quotes

I think about the life I’ve built here. SN and Ethan, or maybe SN/Ethan, Dri and Agnes, even Theo. Liam too, I guess. How my new English teacher said I’m one of her brightest students, which is a huge compliment, considering I go to a school that sends five kids to Harvard each year. How Wood Valley may be filled with rich brats, but it also has a beautiful library, and I get to work in a bookstore, and I’m reading college-level poetry with a boy who can recite it back to me. In a strange way, thanks to Rachel, LA has turned out to be nerd heaven.

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Ethan/Somebody Nobody/The Batman, Jessie’s Dad, Liam Sandler, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Adrianna Sanchez/Dri, Agnes, Mrs. Pollack
Page Number: 304
Explanation and Analysis:

This is a house full of pain, of bad juju, as Theo said, but it’s also a house of starting over. Maybe we need to light a few candles. Better yet, start putting things on all of the white walls. “You know, I mean, this place is beautiful, but maybe you should put out some pictures too. Of your husband—I mean your, uh, other husband, Theo’s dad, and of Theo as a kid. So he can remember.”

Related Characters: Jessie Holmes (speaker), Jessie’s Dad, Theo, Rachel/Dad’s New Wife, Jessie’s Mom, Theo’s Dad
Page Number: 312
Explanation and Analysis: