« - Stop, Paul, the feller his sister. You won't have any more tears for the funeral. Alice had thought she could afford a touch of black humour. Except this time Louise `her mother` couldn't stand it, and the slap went off, the first Alice received. Paul ran to his hamsters, Alice went to lock herself in his room, her cheek burning and her heart on fire. Louise was alone in the kitchen, convinced that deep down the monster was her. Now, in her room, drowning her tears in her pillow, Alice thought as much. She was horrible. Why did she want to joke when the poor old man was dying? Her mother would believe she was a psychopath! But it wasn't that, not that at all. In fact, she didn't know why she had reacted that way - 'odious', her mother had said. (p. 147-148) »

« - We talked a little bit. He asked to be my friend. On Facebook, I mean. The boy had become Ella's 32nd friend. Then he asked her if she wanted to go out with him as a MP. - Going out in MP? "But no! He asked me in MP if I wanted to go out with him. MP is Facebook's private email. She was articulating like she was dealing with a deaf or an idiot. An adult. »

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