How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Ursula-Marie sat for a long time, looking at her braids.
There were no longer tears on her cheeks. Instead her eyes were glowing with rage. She turned calmly to Hussain and in a gentle voice, her teeth only moderately clenched, said:
"Your prayer mat!" (11.16-18)
Agnes equates cutting off Ursula-Marie's hair to cutting off the Biblical character Samson's, so it makes perfect sense that the sacrifice Ursula-Marie demands has to do with religion.
Quote #5
Sofie was one of those who pressured the most.
She shouldn't have done that. (12.16-17)
Poor Sofie. We feel so sorry for her we can't even disagree with Agnes.
Quote #6
"How do you know my neon yellow bike doesn't mean as much to me as Sofie's innocence means to her?" (13.5)
Because, nimrod. It doesn't. It's a BIKE. But putting that aside for the moment, we can't help but note that he's basically pointing out a central tenet of existentialism, which all these kids are sort of trying to argue against—that meaning is relative.