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Denholme Cavendish
Mrs. Noakes is a nurse at Aurora House, the nursing home where Timothy Cavendish gets trapped while trying to escape Dermot Hoggins’s brothers. She is cruel and uses her minor position of authority to control the lives of the nursing home residents, and she drugs anyone who tries to stop her. She demonstrates how people can abuse power not just in politics but in personal life and business as well.
Mrs. Noakes Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Noakes or refer to Mrs. Noakes. 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 4
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Ominous, no? I had seen One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest with an extraordinarily talentless but wealthy and widowed poetess whose collected works, Verses Wild & Wayward, I was annotating but who was less widowed than initially claimed, alas. “Look, I’m sure you’re a reasonable woman.” The oxymoron passed without comment. “So read my lips. I am not supposed to be here. I checked into Aurora House believing it to be a hotel.”
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Chapter 8
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“I wouldn’t have locked up Noakes and stolen a car if I’d known you couldn’t pick the lock!”
“Aye, exactly, you’re nesh, so you needed encouragement.”
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Mrs. Noakes Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Noakes or refer to Mrs. Noakes. 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 4
Quotes
Ominous, no? I had seen One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest with an extraordinarily talentless but wealthy and widowed poetess whose collected works, Verses Wild & Wayward, I was annotating but who was less widowed than initially claimed, alas. “Look, I’m sure you’re a reasonable woman.” The oxymoron passed without comment. “So read my lips. I am not supposed to be here. I checked into Aurora House believing it to be a hotel.”
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 8
Quotes
“I wouldn’t have locked up Noakes and stolen a car if I’d known you couldn’t pick the lock!”
“Aye, exactly, you’re nesh, so you needed encouragement.”
