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Violet Markey
Eleanor was Violet’s older sister who, at age 18, died in a car accident nine months before the novel begins. Violet and Eleanor were extremely close and ran the web magazine EleanorandViolet.com. After Eleanor’s death, though, Violet finds that she can’t write anything out of her grief for her sister. To help deal with this grief, Violet wears Eleanor’s glasses—thick, round frames that Violet admits look horrible on her, though they looked edgy on Eleanor. As Violet and Finch grow close, Violet is willing to open up more about Eleanor. She shares that Eleanor was, in some ways, a lot like Finch: she always took things a step further than Violet would have, and she encouraged Violet to relax and live. Indeed, on the night that Eleanor died, she’d convinced Violet to come to a party with her. On the way home from that party, Violet suggested that Eleanor take the icy A Street Bridge and survived the ensuing crash off of the bridge, so she feels responsible for Eleanor’s death. By the end of the novel, though, Violet realizes that she can’t spend her life wallowing in her grief and mourning Eleanor’s death—in order to properly honor Eleanor and Finch, Violet needs to live her life.
Eleanor Markey Quotes in All the Bright Places
The All the Bright Places quotes below are all either spoken by Eleanor Markey or refer to Eleanor Markey. 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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2. Violet: 154 days till graduation
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I have a headache. Probably from the glasses. Eleanor’s eyes were worse than mine. I take the glasses off and set them on the desk. They were stylish on her. They’re ugly on me. Especially with the bangs. But maybe, if I wear the glasses long enough, I can be like her. I can see what she saw. I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me.
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6. Finch: Day 7 of the Awake
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“But that isn’t why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or…” She waves her arms at the world. “It’s all just time filler until we die.”
“Maybe. Maybe not. Whether it’s filler or not, I’m pretty glad to be here.” If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that you need to make the most of it. “It mattered enough for you not to jump.”
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26. Violet: 133 days to go
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I set her glasses down on her dresser. “Thanks for the loan,” I say. “But they make my head hurt. And they’re ugly.” I can almost hear her laughing.
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48. Violet: March 21 and beyond
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“Listen, I’m the freak. I’m the weirdo. I’m the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down. Don’t make Finch mad, whatever you do. Oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. Moody Finch. Angry Finch. Unpredictable Finch. Crazy Finch. But I’m not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I’m a person.”
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Eleanor Markey Quotes in All the Bright Places
The All the Bright Places quotes below are all either spoken by Eleanor Markey or refer to Eleanor Markey. 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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2. Violet: 154 days till graduation
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I have a headache. Probably from the glasses. Eleanor’s eyes were worse than mine. I take the glasses off and set them on the desk. They were stylish on her. They’re ugly on me. Especially with the bangs. But maybe, if I wear the glasses long enough, I can be like her. I can see what she saw. I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me.
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6. Finch: Day 7 of the Awake
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“But that isn’t why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or…” She waves her arms at the world. “It’s all just time filler until we die.”
“Maybe. Maybe not. Whether it’s filler or not, I’m pretty glad to be here.” If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that you need to make the most of it. “It mattered enough for you not to jump.”
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26. Violet: 133 days to go
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I set her glasses down on her dresser. “Thanks for the loan,” I say. “But they make my head hurt. And they’re ugly.” I can almost hear her laughing.
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48. Violet: March 21 and beyond
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“Listen, I’m the freak. I’m the weirdo. I’m the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down. Don’t make Finch mad, whatever you do. Oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. Moody Finch. Angry Finch. Unpredictable Finch. Crazy Finch. But I’m not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I’m a person.”
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