Lily- "My hair was constantly going in eleven wrong directions. " Pg. 3
"I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was impersonating a girl instead really being one." Pg. 9
"Gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck." Pg. 9

Rosaleen- "Her hair was black and generous, with thick curls circling her face." Pg. 6
"Rosaleen had never had a child of her own." Pg. 2
"She was full of crazy ideas I ignored." Pg. 2

T. Ray- "The giant peach perched atop a sixty-foot pole beside the gate, its fleshy color, not to mention the crease down the middle, gave it an unmistakable appearance of a rear end. Rosaleen said it was T.Ray's way of mooning the entire world. That was T.Ray." Pg. 8
"His only kindness was for snout, his bird dog." Pg. 3
"The moldy smell of peaches clung to T.Ray's boots." Pg. 6