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Quote #1
"So," you murmured. "What is it you want to do, then? Get a job like your dad? Travel like your mom?"
I shrugged. "That's what they'd like. I don't know. Nothing really seems right."
"Not … meaningful enough?"
"Yeah, maybe. I mean, they just collect stuff. Dad collects other people's money and Mum collects people's drawings. What do they really do that's theirs?" (1.40-43)
Ooh, burn. Not only does Gemma have a ton of contempt for her parents' work, she sees it as having little meaning or significance. And yet, that's what they seem to expect from her as she chooses a career path.
Quote #2
You must have thought of everything: a ticket, a new passport, our route through, how to get past security. Was it the most carefully planned steal ever, or just luck? It can't have been easy to have got me through Bangkok airport and onto a different plane without anyone knowing, not even me. (2.10)
Ty doesn't just break the law when he takes Gemma—he blows it up, violating just about every rule in place at airports for safety and identification. So much for rigid security measures.
Quote #3
I felt a brief glimmer of hope anyway, a stirring that maybe everything would be okay. Australia was a civilized country, with a law system and police and a government. People could be looking for me already, police hunting me out. The whole nation might be on alert. Then the glimmer faded. You'd taken me from Bangkok. Who'd guess to look for me in Australia? (8.23)
It's interesting that Australia as a "civilized country" speaks to Gemma's sense of justice. In this moment, the vast wilderness that scared her so much doesn't seem to matter—she's in a nation that has law enforcement and will handle her situation. Until, at least, she realizes no one knows to look for her there. Oops.