With more time spent in their mother's presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie's own facile mental questioning and creative drive, paired with her physical rigidity, all the more oppositional, and, how they dance around serious subjects, laughable. Justin Bog
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This quote is about how Maggie, Callie's sister, is not as intelligent as she might be without the presence of her mother. The relationship between Maggie and her mother is a joke one, both of them having a very different personality. Her mother is very quiet and she knows that her daughter is smart enough to figure things out for herself. However, she keeps things from Maggie because she does not want her to feel inferior to her. In time, though, Maggie becomes the smartest sister and the one who looks after her mother.

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