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Lefty Lewis
Bugs is Bud Caldwell’s best friend at the Home. Everyone calls him Bugs because of an unfortunate incident involving a cockroach that got stuck in his ear. Bugs, like Bud, is looking to escape Flint and free himself of his orphan status. He recruits Bud to leave Flint with him on a train heading west. Through their planning, Bud begins to think of Bugs as his brother, highlighting the growing importance of chosen family in Bud’s life. The two boys run away together and discover a community of people in Hooverville who are also looking to make a better life for themselves with what little they have. Though Bugs is able to get on the train and Bud isn’t, Bud is able to get a taste of what it means to have a family through Bugs’s companionship.
Bugs Quotes in Bud, Not Buddy
The Bud, Not Buddy quotes below are all either spoken by Bugs or refer to Bugs. 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 8
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“I’m sorry, Bud, I didn’t mean to scare you, but everybody knows how you like to sleep with that knife open so I figured I’d best grab holt of you so’s you wouldn’t wake up slicing nobody.”
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I spit a big glob in my hand and said, “We’re brother forever, Bugs!”
We slapped our hands together as hard as we could and got our slobs mixed up real good, then waved them in the air so they’d dry. Now it was official, I finally had a brother!
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The train and my new pretend brother got farther and farther away, chugging to Chicago. Man. I’d found some family and he was gone before we could really get to know each other.
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Bugs Quotes in Bud, Not Buddy
The Bud, Not Buddy quotes below are all either spoken by Bugs or refer to Bugs. 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 8
Quotes
“I’m sorry, Bud, I didn’t mean to scare you, but everybody knows how you like to sleep with that knife open so I figured I’d best grab holt of you so’s you wouldn’t wake up slicing nobody.”
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I spit a big glob in my hand and said, “We’re brother forever, Bugs!”
We slapped our hands together as hard as we could and got our slobs mixed up real good, then waved them in the air so they’d dry. Now it was official, I finally had a brother!
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The train and my new pretend brother got farther and farther away, chugging to Chicago. Man. I’d found some family and he was gone before we could really get to know each other.
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