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Kate Finch
Decca is Finch and Kate’s eight-year-old sister. She’s bluntly honest and emotional throughout much of the novel. Finch tries to do his best to check on Decca and make sure she’s doing okay, since Finch’s mom seldom does anything that Finch would call “parenting.” Though Finch doesn’t pry, Decca seems to be struggling with difficult emotions about her mom and dad’s divorce a year ago—she’s vocal about hating having to go visit Finch’s dad, and both Kate and Finch suspect that Decca has very mixed feelings about Josh Raymond given how close she is to him in age. (The siblings suspect that Josh Raymond is actually their dad’s son and proof that their dad had been cheating on their mom for some time before the divorce). Like everyone else, Decca is unconcerned when Finch goes missing—as she tells Violet, she believes Finch will always come back.
Decca Finch Quotes in All the Bright Places
The All the Bright Places quotes below are all either spoken by Decca Finch or refer to Decca Finch. 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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21. Finch: Day 22 and I’m still here
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In 2013, a man in Pennsylvania committed suicide via carbon monoxide, but when his family tried to rescue him, they were overcome by the fumes and every single one of them died before rescue crews could save them.
I think of my mom and Decca and Kate, and then I hit the opener, and up goes the door, and out I go into the wild blue yonder. For the first mile or so, I feel high and excited, like I just ran into a burning building and saved lives, like I’m some sort of hero.
But then a voice in me says, You’re no hero. You’re a coward. You only saved them from yourself.
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“Why are we doing this, Dec?”
“Because they shouldn’t be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you.”
And somehow I know what she means. I think of the Bartlett Dirt and all its mean words, not just about me but about every student who’s strange or different. Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don’t surprise you when you’re not expecting them.
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48. Violet: March 21 and beyond
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“He’ll be back. He always comes back.” That’s just his thing. It’s what he does.
I want to say to her and Charlie and Brenda, to Kate, to his mom: Doesn’t anyone care why he comes and goes? Have you ever stopped to think that something might be wrong with this?
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Decca Finch Quotes in All the Bright Places
The All the Bright Places quotes below are all either spoken by Decca Finch or refer to Decca Finch. 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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21. Finch: Day 22 and I’m still here
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In 2013, a man in Pennsylvania committed suicide via carbon monoxide, but when his family tried to rescue him, they were overcome by the fumes and every single one of them died before rescue crews could save them.
I think of my mom and Decca and Kate, and then I hit the opener, and up goes the door, and out I go into the wild blue yonder. For the first mile or so, I feel high and excited, like I just ran into a burning building and saved lives, like I’m some sort of hero.
But then a voice in me says, You’re no hero. You’re a coward. You only saved them from yourself.
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“Why are we doing this, Dec?”
“Because they shouldn’t be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you.”
And somehow I know what she means. I think of the Bartlett Dirt and all its mean words, not just about me but about every student who’s strange or different. Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don’t surprise you when you’re not expecting them.
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48. Violet: March 21 and beyond
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“He’ll be back. He always comes back.” That’s just his thing. It’s what he does.
I want to say to her and Charlie and Brenda, to Kate, to his mom: Doesn’t anyone care why he comes and goes? Have you ever stopped to think that something might be wrong with this?
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