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Thaddeus Valentine
Katherine Valentine is the daughter of Thaddeus Valentine and an unknown woman from outside of London who died when Katherine was very young. She was then sent to live with her father in London, and Valentine pledged his loyalty to Lord Mayor Crome in exchange for the privilege of raising Katherine as a member of upper-class society. Despite Katherine’s refined upbringing, however, she keeps a pet wolf named Dog, showing that she is not quite the typical upper-class lady she appears to be. Katherine’s isolated lifestyle leaves her naïve, and she continues to admire and trust her father even after seeing substantial evidence that he is a murderer. But witnessing what happens in London’s underworld and befriending a convict worker named Bevis Pod helps Katherine understand her father’s true nature. By the end of the book, she opposes her father and even dies in the process of defending her father’s archenemy, Hester. Like Tom, Katherine represents the dangers of naïvely believing in the great reputation and respectable appearances of people like Valentine, but she also shows how empathy can lead people to change for the better.
Katherine Valentine Quotes in Mortal Engines
The Mortal Engines quotes below are all either spoken by Katherine Valentine or refer to Katherine Valentine. 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 5
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Magnus Crome had been ruler of London for nearly twenty years, but he still didn’t look like a Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayors in Katherine’s history books were chubby, merry, red-faced men, but Crome was as thin as an old crow, and twice as gloomy.
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Chapter 16
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“What does she mean, K Division?” asked Katherine.
Chapter 23
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“No!” Katherine heard herself say. “Oh, no, no, no!” She started to run across the garden, staring towards the lightning-flecked cloud which wreathed the wreckage of the conurbation. From Circle Park and all the observation platforms came the sound of wordless voices, and she thought at first that they were crying out in horror, the way she wanted to—but no; they were cheering, cheering, cheering.
Chapter 30
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He said, “You must understand, Kate, I did it for you...”
Chapter 31
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“So, Apprentice Melliphant, I gather you have something to tell us?”
Chapter 32
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She had come to think of Bevis Pod as a sweet, clumsy, rather useless person, someone who needed her to look after him, and she suspected that that was how the Historians all thought of him as well. But that afternoon she had begun to understand that he was really much cleverer than her.
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Chapter 35
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Hester was stumbling backwards, lifting her bound hands to ward off Father’s blow, and Katherine flung herself between them so that suddenly it was she who was in his path, and his sword slid easily through her and she felt the hilt jar hard against her ribs.
Chapter 36
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He gently moves a stray strand which has blown into her mouth, and holds her close, and waits—and the storm-light breaks over them and they are a knot of fire, a rush of blazing gas, and gone: the shadows of their bones scattering into the brilliant sky.
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Katherine Valentine Quotes in Mortal Engines
The Mortal Engines quotes below are all either spoken by Katherine Valentine or refer to Katherine Valentine. 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 5
Quotes
Magnus Crome had been ruler of London for nearly twenty years, but he still didn’t look like a Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayors in Katherine’s history books were chubby, merry, red-faced men, but Crome was as thin as an old crow, and twice as gloomy.
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Chapter 16
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“What does she mean, K Division?” asked Katherine.
Chapter 23
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“No!” Katherine heard herself say. “Oh, no, no, no!” She started to run across the garden, staring towards the lightning-flecked cloud which wreathed the wreckage of the conurbation. From Circle Park and all the observation platforms came the sound of wordless voices, and she thought at first that they were crying out in horror, the way she wanted to—but no; they were cheering, cheering, cheering.
Chapter 30
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He said, “You must understand, Kate, I did it for you...”
Chapter 31
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“So, Apprentice Melliphant, I gather you have something to tell us?”
Chapter 32
Quotes
She had come to think of Bevis Pod as a sweet, clumsy, rather useless person, someone who needed her to look after him, and she suspected that that was how the Historians all thought of him as well. But that afternoon she had begun to understand that he was really much cleverer than her.
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Chapter 35
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Hester was stumbling backwards, lifting her bound hands to ward off Father’s blow, and Katherine flung herself between them so that suddenly it was she who was in his path, and his sword slid easily through her and she felt the hilt jar hard against her ribs.
Chapter 36
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He gently moves a stray strand which has blown into her mouth, and holds her close, and waits—and the storm-light breaks over them and they are a knot of fire, a rush of blazing gas, and gone: the shadows of their bones scattering into the brilliant sky.
