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Mitraillette
Amélie is Mitraillette’s little sister and Mama and Papa Thibaut’s youngest daughter. Maddie briefly refers to her by her Resistance code name, La Cadette (which translates to “the youngest”) but soon begins referring to Amélie by her given name. It’s unclear exactly how old Amélie is, but she’s still in school. Amélie is extremely charming to everyone, so when the Gestapo visit for Sunday dinner once per month, it often falls to her to make conversation with von Linden and the other officers. When Maddie first meets Amélie, this doesn’t pose much of a problem for the girl—Amélie is relatively innocent and naïve, though she’s aware that intellectually, von Linden is her enemy. But her outlook starts to change as she hears about and witnesses how von Linden tortures and murders his prisoners—one of whom, Marie, is a former classmate of Amélie’s.
Amélie/La Cadette Quotes in Code Name Verity
The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Amélie/La Cadette or refer to Amélie/La Cadette. 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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Part 2, Section 13
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Because that’s what it’s like, schoolmates being guillotined as spies. I didn’t understand before—really didn’t understand. Being a kid and worrying that a bomb might kill you is terrible. But being a kid and worrying that the police might cut your head off is something else entirely. I haven’t words for it. Every fresh broken horror is something I just didn’t understand until I came here.
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Amélie/La Cadette Quotes in Code Name Verity
The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by Amélie/La Cadette or refer to Amélie/La Cadette. 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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Part 2, Section 13
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Because that’s what it’s like, schoolmates being guillotined as spies. I didn’t understand before—really didn’t understand. Being a kid and worrying that a bomb might kill you is terrible. But being a kid and worrying that the police might cut your head off is something else entirely. I haven’t words for it. Every fresh broken horror is something I just didn’t understand until I came here.
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