Previous
Jimmy
Deza Malone is the young girl that Bud Caldwell meets in Hooverville, whom he shares his first kiss with. She is a very good listener and helps Bud open up about his mother. She is also fiercely loyal to her family and remains optimistic about being eventually reunited with her father, who is away looking for job opportunities in the West.
Deza Malone Quotes in Bud, Not Buddy
The Bud, Not Buddy quotes below are all either spoken by Deza Malone or refer to Deza Malone. 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
“My mother said the same thing, that families should be there for each other all the time. She always used to tell me that no matter where I went or what I did that she’d be there for me, even if she wasn’t somewhere that I could see her […] She would tell me every night before I went to sleep that no matter what happened I could sleep knowing that there had never been a little boy, anywhere, anytime, who was loved more than she loved me. She told me that as long as I remembered that I’d be OK.”
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Someone who doesn’t know who their family is, is like dust blowing around in a storm, they don’t really belong any one place […] I might not know who my family was, but I knew they were out there somewhere, and it seemed to make a whole lot more sense to think that they were somewhere around Flint instead of out west.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Get the entire Bud, Not Buddy LitChart as a printable PDF.
Deza Malone Quotes in Bud, Not Buddy
The Bud, Not Buddy quotes below are all either spoken by Deza Malone or refer to Deza Malone. 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
“My mother said the same thing, that families should be there for each other all the time. She always used to tell me that no matter where I went or what I did that she’d be there for me, even if she wasn’t somewhere that I could see her […] She would tell me every night before I went to sleep that no matter what happened I could sleep knowing that there had never been a little boy, anywhere, anytime, who was loved more than she loved me. She told me that as long as I remembered that I’d be OK.”
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Someone who doesn’t know who their family is, is like dust blowing around in a storm, they don’t really belong any one place […] I might not know who my family was, but I knew they were out there somewhere, and it seemed to make a whole lot more sense to think that they were somewhere around Flint instead of out west.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
