chapter 6 - 3/5

"Ever since I woke up and Uncle said those bad things and then later at school I tried to cheat on my test and said even worse things to Aisha - it's like we brought it on ourselves, all this misfortune, like dark cold water pulling us down" - page 54

I think that this quote is really sad. I think Nadira is feeling like everything in her life is going wrong (well more like everything that day especially went wrong) The "dark cold water" part is a great metaphor for this situation. It's like Nadira wants to get on the safe, dry land but she can't. She's stuck in the black water, struggling for air.