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Dr. Loehmann
Ana was Jude’s only social worker. She began working his case after Dr. Traylor’s attack and helped Jude through his recovery. Before Willem, Ana was the only person in whom he confided the details of his traumatic childhood. Ana genuinely cared about Jude and encouraged him to apply to college, and when Jude was accepted to a prestigious university in Boston, he attributed his success to her (though Ana guffawed at this, insisting that Jude had only himself to thank for his success). Ana encouraged Jude to open up about his past, promising him that it will help him to heal. But she also warned him that it would only become more difficult to talk about everything the longer Jude waited. Ana dies of cancer the summer before Jude leaves for college, and her death is very difficult for him—so difficult that he even considers suicide.
Ana Quotes in A Little Life
The A Little Life quotes below are all either spoken by Ana or refer to Ana . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 4: The Axiom of Equality: Chapter 1
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“You’ll find your own way to discuss what happened to you,” he remembers Ana saying. “You’ll have to, if you ever want to be close to anyone.” He wishes, as he often does, that he had let her […] teach him how to do it. His silence had begun as something protective, but over the years it has transformed into something […] that manages him rather than the other way around. […] He imagines he is floating in a small bubble of water, encased on all sides by walls and ceilings and floors of ice, all many feet thick. He knows there is a way out, but he is unequipped; he has no tools to begin his work […]. He had thought that by not saying who he was, he was making himself more palatable, less strange. But now, what he doesn’t say makes him stranger, an object of pity and even suspicion.
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Ana Quotes in A Little Life
The A Little Life quotes below are all either spoken by Ana or refer to Ana . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 4: The Axiom of Equality: Chapter 1
Quotes
“You’ll find your own way to discuss what happened to you,” he remembers Ana saying. “You’ll have to, if you ever want to be close to anyone.” He wishes, as he often does, that he had let her […] teach him how to do it. His silence had begun as something protective, but over the years it has transformed into something […] that manages him rather than the other way around. […] He imagines he is floating in a small bubble of water, encased on all sides by walls and ceilings and floors of ice, all many feet thick. He knows there is a way out, but he is unequipped; he has no tools to begin his work […]. He had thought that by not saying who he was, he was making himself more palatable, less strange. But now, what he doesn’t say makes him stranger, an object of pity and even suspicion.
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