Your correct answer would be D!
“We can’t tell them anything”, I said, without thinking.
This is proper because when a person says something in the novel these (“”) must be used to isolate their words.
Look at this example as well:
According to Abraham Lincoln, “America will never be destroyed on the outside”. This means _________
Rosa Parks was an important person in history. She along with some other African Americans stood up for what they believed in, or in her case stayed seated.
Rumors, lies, or Arguments are some