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Ted is one of Sam and Dolly’s two sons. He grows up without interacting with his sister Rose very much, and he eventually moves away from Cloudstreet to live with a young woman after getting her pregnant. Dolly can’t help but feel jealous of Ted’s youth as he develops a very active romantic life. One morning, when Sam feels a sense of extreme bad luck approaching, Ted dies of heart failure in a sauna after pushing himself too hard to become a jockey. Dolly bitterly mourns his passing, and she later admits to Rose that Ted was her favorite child.
Ted Pickles Quotes in Cloudstreet
The Cloudstreet quotes below are all either spoken by Ted Pickles or refer to Ted Pickles. 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 3
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It’s just them in this vast indoors and though there’s a war on and people are coming home with bits of them removed, and though families are still getting telegrams and waiting by the wireless, women walking buggered and beatenlooking with infants in the parks, the Pickleses can’t help but feel that all that is incidental. They have no money and this great continent of a house doesn’t belong to them. They’re lost.
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Ted Pickles Quotes in Cloudstreet
The Cloudstreet quotes below are all either spoken by Ted Pickles or refer to Ted Pickles. 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 3
Quotes
It’s just them in this vast indoors and though there’s a war on and people are coming home with bits of them removed, and though families are still getting telegrams and waiting by the wireless, women walking buggered and beatenlooking with infants in the parks, the Pickleses can’t help but feel that all that is incidental. They have no money and this great continent of a house doesn’t belong to them. They’re lost.
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