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Clive/Marcus’s Dad
Lindsey is Clive’s girlfriend and lives with him in Cambridge. Marcus and Fiona both like Lindsey well enough, although Fiona sometimes expresses disdain for her. Marcus particularly likes Lindsey’s mum, who sometimes gives him money for no apparent reason. Lindsey represents Clive’s “new” life after his separation from Fiona, one in which Marcus generally feels distant from his father, like more of an afterthought than a priority. In a misdirected response to these feelings, Marcus snaps at Lindsey when she arrives with Clive at the police station, but he is ultimately forgiven.
Clive’s Girlfriend/Lindsey Quotes in About a Boy
The About a Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Clive’s Girlfriend/Lindsey or refer to Clive’s Girlfriend/Lindsey. 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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Chapter 34
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Some of these people he hadn’t known until today; some of them he had only known for a little while, and even then he couldn’t say that he knew them well. But here they were anyway, one of them clutching a cardboard cut-out Kurt Cobain, one of them in a plaster cast, one of them crying, all of them bound to each other in ways that it would be almost impossible to explain to anyone who had just wandered in. Will couldn’t recall ever having been caught up in this sort of messy, sprawling, chaotic web before; it was almost as if he had been given a glimpse of what it was like to be human.
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Clive’s Girlfriend/Lindsey Quotes in About a Boy
The About a Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Clive’s Girlfriend/Lindsey or refer to Clive’s Girlfriend/Lindsey. 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:
).
Chapter 34
Quotes
Some of these people he hadn’t known until today; some of them he had only known for a little while, and even then he couldn’t say that he knew them well. But here they were anyway, one of them clutching a cardboard cut-out Kurt Cobain, one of them in a plaster cast, one of them crying, all of them bound to each other in ways that it would be almost impossible to explain to anyone who had just wandered in. Will couldn’t recall ever having been caught up in this sort of messy, sprawling, chaotic web before; it was almost as if he had been given a glimpse of what it was like to be human.
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