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Carina is a librarian at the public library in Cambridge. She is friends with Sadie before she runs away, and she helps Bird make his way to New York City. Carina is part of a network of librarians across the country who share information about the locations of re-placed children.
Carina (Cambridge Librarian) Quotes in Our Missing Hearts
The Our Missing Hearts quotes below are all either spoken by Carina (Cambridge Librarian) or refer to Carina (Cambridge Librarian). 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 1, Chapter 3
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Someone complained, probably. That it encouraged pro-PAO sentiment, or something. Some of our donors have—opinions. On China, or in this case, anything that vaguely resembles it. And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries—a lot of us just can’t take the risk. Too easy for some concerned citizen to say you’re promoting unpatriotic behavior. Being overly sympathetic to potential enemies.
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Part 1, Chapter 7
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They don’t teach you any of this. Too unpatriotic, right, to tell you the horrible things our country’s done before. […] Because telling you what really happened would be espousing un-American views, and we certainly wouldn’t want that.
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I told you, she says, that’s my job. Information. Passing it on. Helping people find what they need.
She sets the opened binder atop the shelf and slides it across to him.
What you do with this information, she says, is your own business only.
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Carina (Cambridge Librarian) Quotes in Our Missing Hearts
The Our Missing Hearts quotes below are all either spoken by Carina (Cambridge Librarian) or refer to Carina (Cambridge Librarian). 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 1, Chapter 3
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Someone complained, probably. That it encouraged pro-PAO sentiment, or something. Some of our donors have—opinions. On China, or in this case, anything that vaguely resembles it. And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries—a lot of us just can’t take the risk. Too easy for some concerned citizen to say you’re promoting unpatriotic behavior. Being overly sympathetic to potential enemies.
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Part 1, Chapter 7
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They don’t teach you any of this. Too unpatriotic, right, to tell you the horrible things our country’s done before. […] Because telling you what really happened would be espousing un-American views, and we certainly wouldn’t want that.
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I told you, she says, that’s my job. Information. Passing it on. Helping people find what they need.
She sets the opened binder atop the shelf and slides it across to him.
What you do with this information, she says, is your own business only.
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