The further thoughts of Adeline when she discovered PLT's death on Page 75.
I was sad. Sad for my little duckling, sad for myself. And while that may be perceived as selfish, I think it's okay to feel sorry for yourself every once in a while. Especially when you lose a friend. A close friend, your only friend. Why had her family done that? When had her family become so cruel? They had always been mean her. But not enough to kill a young duckling, right? At least that is what she had thought.
Now she knew, maybe it was better off not to have any friends at all. She could just keep to her writing and her stories and her dreams. Her dreams of going to college and grow up to be somebody. To write stories that maybe others could read! Oh, that would be wonderful.
But for now she was just a crying little girl holding a dead duckling.