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When she accompanies Sedaris’s friend Alisha to New York City, Bonnie annoys Sedaris by insisting that he show her all of the city’s busiest tourist attractions. As someone who has never left North Carolina, Bonnie is a highly suspicious traveler, constantly accusing people of charging her too much or trying to take advantage of her because she’s from out of town. When she decides to go to tea at the Plaza Hotel, Sedaris suggests that she wear formal clothes, but she refuses to do this. This secretly pleases Sedaris because he’s certain the staff at the Plaza will admonish Bonnie for underdressing. Much to his surprise, though, he discovers that Bonnie fits right in at the Plaza Hotel, joining a swarm of tourists who have foregone any kind of dress code. Following Bonnie throughout the city in this manner, Sedaris begins to realize that he doesn’t actually know New York as well as he previously thought.
Bonnie Quotes in Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Me Talk Pretty One Day quotes below are all either spoken by Bonnie or refer to Bonnie. 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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I was mortified, but Bonnie was in a state of almost narcotic bliss, overjoyed to have discovered a New York without the New Yorkers. Here were out-of-town visitors from Omaha and Chattanooga, outraged over the price of their hot roasted chestnuts. […] The crowd was relentlessly, pathologically friendly, and their enthusiasm was deafening. Looking around her, Bonnie saw a glittering paradise filled with decent, like-minded people, sent by God to give the world a howdy. Encircled by her army of angels, she drifted across the avenue to photograph a juggler, while I hobbled off toward home, a clear outsider in a city I’d foolishly thought to call my own.
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Bonnie Quotes in Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Me Talk Pretty One Day quotes below are all either spoken by Bonnie or refer to Bonnie. 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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City of Angels
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I was mortified, but Bonnie was in a state of almost narcotic bliss, overjoyed to have discovered a New York without the New Yorkers. Here were out-of-town visitors from Omaha and Chattanooga, outraged over the price of their hot roasted chestnuts. […] The crowd was relentlessly, pathologically friendly, and their enthusiasm was deafening. Looking around her, Bonnie saw a glittering paradise filled with decent, like-minded people, sent by God to give the world a howdy. Encircled by her army of angels, she drifted across the avenue to photograph a juggler, while I hobbled off toward home, a clear outsider in a city I’d foolishly thought to call my own.
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