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Matt Evans
The younger brother of Miranda and Matt. Jonny is thirteen years old and hopes to be a professional baseball player when he grows up. Prior to the asteroid’s strike, Jonny had planned to spend the summer at baseball camp. Laura decides that he should still attend, despite the new dangers and lack of consistent electricity or phone lines, because the camp promises to provide better food than she can give him at home. While he is gone, Miranda, Laura, and Matt come to an agreement that while they will cut down on the number of meals they’re eating, they don’t want Jonny to fast. This is part of their unspoken agreement that if only one member of their family survives, it should be Jonny.
Jonny Evans Quotes in Life as We Knew It
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Chapter 7
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Maybe we’ll be lucky. Maybe something good will happen that we can’t imagine just now. But we have to prepare for the worst. You and I and Matt and Jonny have to prepare for the worst. We have to assume frosts in August. We have to assume no power and no food coming and no gas for the car and no oil for the furnace. Up till now we’ve been playacting survival, but from now on we have to take it seriously.
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Chapter 8
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“Life may not continue the way we know it today, but it will continue. Life endures. I’ll always believe that.”
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Chapter 17
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“If we all die, you’ll leave,” I said. “Because you’ll be strong enough to. And maybe someplace in America or Mexico or somewhere things are better and you’ll manage to get there. And then Mom’s life and Matt’s and mine won’t have been a waste.”
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Jonny Evans Quotes in Life as We Knew It
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Chapter 7
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Maybe we’ll be lucky. Maybe something good will happen that we can’t imagine just now. But we have to prepare for the worst. You and I and Matt and Jonny have to prepare for the worst. We have to assume frosts in August. We have to assume no power and no food coming and no gas for the car and no oil for the furnace. Up till now we’ve been playacting survival, but from now on we have to take it seriously.
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Chapter 8
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“Life may not continue the way we know it today, but it will continue. Life endures. I’ll always believe that.”
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Chapter 17
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“If we all die, you’ll leave,” I said. “Because you’ll be strong enough to. And maybe someplace in America or Mexico or somewhere things are better and you’ll manage to get there. And then Mom’s life and Matt’s and mine won’t have been a waste.”
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