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Sera is one of Josie’s best friends. Sera is Italian, like Josie, but that’s where the similarities end: Sera’s family is wealthy, and Sera always has the fanciest clothes, hairstyles, and makeup. Sera’s love of hairspray is a running joke amongst their group of friends. She’s described as promiscuous and dates a boy named Angelo, whom nobody else likes. Sera is known for doing whatever she wants, whenever she wants, and for dragging others along with her. She regularly dares her friends to do silly or embarrassing things in public, and she has no qualms about publicly humiliating her friends. She’s insistent that sex isn’t a big deal and that everyone should have sex before marriage, despite her Catholic upbringing.
Sera Quotes in Looking for Alibrandi
The Looking for Alibrandi quotes below are all either spoken by Sera or refer to Sera. 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 1
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I think things got worse when I started at St. Martha’s because I began to understand what the absence of a father meant. Also there were no Europeans like me. No Europeans who didn’t have money to back them up. The ones like me didn’t belong in the eastern and northern suburbs.
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Chapter 14
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I just ignored her. I’m getting good that way. Things that worried me a few months ago no longer worry me as much. I can’t say that I’m completely oblivious. The gossiping of the Italian community might not matter to some, but I belong to that community.
Sometimes I feel that no matter how smart or how beautiful I could be they would still remember me for the wrong things.
That’s why I want to be rich and influential. I want to flaunt my status in front of those people and say, “See, look who I can become.”
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Chapter 32
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I’ve figured out that it doesn’t matter whether I’m Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi, who should have been a Sandford and who may never be a Coote. It matters who I feel like I am—and I feel like Michael and Christina’s daughter and Katia’s granddaughter; Sera, Anna, and Lee’s friend, and Robert’s cousin.
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Sera Quotes in Looking for Alibrandi
The Looking for Alibrandi quotes below are all either spoken by Sera or refer to Sera. 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 1
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I think things got worse when I started at St. Martha’s because I began to understand what the absence of a father meant. Also there were no Europeans like me. No Europeans who didn’t have money to back them up. The ones like me didn’t belong in the eastern and northern suburbs.
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Chapter 14
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I just ignored her. I’m getting good that way. Things that worried me a few months ago no longer worry me as much. I can’t say that I’m completely oblivious. The gossiping of the Italian community might not matter to some, but I belong to that community.
Sometimes I feel that no matter how smart or how beautiful I could be they would still remember me for the wrong things.
That’s why I want to be rich and influential. I want to flaunt my status in front of those people and say, “See, look who I can become.”
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Chapter 32
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I’ve figured out that it doesn’t matter whether I’m Josephine Andretti who was never an Alibrandi, who should have been a Sandford and who may never be a Coote. It matters who I feel like I am—and I feel like Michael and Christina’s daughter and Katia’s granddaughter; Sera, Anna, and Lee’s friend, and Robert’s cousin.
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