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Charlie Donahue
Gabe, who goes by “Roamer,” is one of the novel’s antagonists. He’s a senior on the baseball team at Finch and Violet’s school who’s extremely popular and is dating Amanda Monk for most of the novel. Finch reveals to readers that in eighth grade, Finch and Roamer used to be best friends—Finch even confided in Roamer about his strange headaches and invited Roamer to try jumping in front of a car to stop them. Roamer told his parents and got the school involved, and at that point he began calling Finch “Theodore Freak.” So, in the present, Roamer is one of Finch’s biggest bullies. He continuously pushes Finch in the hallways, tells Finch that he should kill himself, and makes other snide comments. Finch tries to kill Roamer twice in the novel, first by holding his head under water at the river and then by choking Roamer. He places most of the blame for how other kids treat him on Roamer, since he constantly antagonizes Finch. Charlie Donahue is incensed when Roamer cries at Finch’s funeral—in Charlie’s mind, Roamer bears some responsibility for Finch’s death.
Gabe “Roamer” Romero Quotes in All the Bright Places
The All the Bright Places quotes below are all either spoken by Gabe “Roamer” Romero or refer to Gabe “Roamer” Romero . 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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18. Finch: Day 15 (still)
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I made the mistake of talking about it once. A few years ago, I asked my then good friend Gabe Romero if he could feel sound and see headaches […] and he went home and told his parents, and they told my teacher, who told the principal, who told my parents, who said to me, Is it true, Theodore? Are you telling stories to your friends? The next day it was all over school, and I was officially Theodore Freak. One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It’s growing out of a label that’s hard.
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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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Gabe “Roamer” Romero Quotes in All the Bright Places
The All the Bright Places quotes below are all either spoken by Gabe “Roamer” Romero or refer to Gabe “Roamer” Romero . 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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18. Finch: Day 15 (still)
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I made the mistake of talking about it once. A few years ago, I asked my then good friend Gabe Romero if he could feel sound and see headaches […] and he went home and told his parents, and they told my teacher, who told the principal, who told my parents, who said to me, Is it true, Theodore? Are you telling stories to your friends? The next day it was all over school, and I was officially Theodore Freak. One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It’s growing out of a label that’s hard.
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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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