Quote: Chapter 15 (page 132)

"I want to say that sometimes you can't know who a person is. Sometimes they don't know who they are either. They can appear to be one thing---like me, fat and slow and lazy---but you can look at them another way too---and see something else." I think that Nadira is finally self-confident and she understands that she can be seen as fat and lazy or she can be seen as someone who is the complete opposite. Same with everyone else. She wanted to prove that everyone is not what you say they are until you understand what you are saying first. And with yourself, you have to be careful not to listen to rumors that float around and dismiss who you truly are. Nadira had originally been lost with what other people though of her and not what she thought of herself. At this point she had cleared everything after seeing everyone changed on the inside and out. She had finally gotten into a habit of seeing things one way which was how everyone else saw it; and then she learned to see things a different way which was how she saw it.