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Hate Quotes
The people in the Dome are lucky, playing their buckled-helmet sports, eating cake, all connected and never feeling lit flecks of swirling ash. (1.38)
Language and Communication Quotes
"Your mother has always been problematic." (2.73)
Power Quotes
People often think Partridge knows more than everyone else. He's Ellery Willux's son. (2.11)
Memory and the Past Quotes
"But what does it mean, anyway, that my father was a pigeon-toed quarterback if I don't remember him? What is a beautiful mother worth if you can't see her face in your head? (1.24)
Perseverance Quotes
"I'll give it to my son. He won't last long […] This will brighten him up some." (3.35)
Sacrifice Quotes
Partridge isn't so sure—to be in a cage or set loose into this world? This is a question that he should be able to answer. Does some part of him wish he were back in the Dome? (26.40)
Spirituality Quotes
She pulls her inner-layer sweater up to cover her neck, then her stretched-out sweater sleeve down over her doll-head fist, still covered by the sock, tucks it under her other arm, and then crosses...
Women and Femininity Quotes
Girls don't get coding, something about their delicate reproductive organs, unless they're not okayed for reproduction. (6.32)