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Domi is a middle-aged white woman who inherits a tech company from her wealthy father, Claude Duchess. She and Margaret are friends who live together during the Crisis. In those years, Domi rejects her father’s financial assistance out of a sense of ethics and pride. Domi is furious when Margaret moves into Ethan’s comfortable apartment, since she sees this as selling out. However, Domi also tires of the unsafe world and eventually accepts her father’s help, hiding out in his isolated cabin for the remainder of the Crisis. In later years, Domi uses her inheritance to make donations to public libraries and locate children removed from their families, including Sadie. Her character illustrates how people from wealthy backgrounds have the choice to ignore issues that don’t directly affect them or to use their privilege to help others.
Domi (the Duchess) Quotes in Our Missing Hearts
The Our Missing Hearts quotes below are all either spoken by Domi (the Duchess) or refer to Domi (the Duchess). 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 2, Chapter 2
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Somewhere out there, you knew, wealthy people were barricaded in their fortresses, fed and warm, if not happy, but soon you stopped thinking of them. You stopped thinking about other people at all.
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Part 3, Chapter 4
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And he understands, then, how it’s going to go. How he’ll find her again. What he’s going to do next, alongside everything else his life will bring. Somewhere out there are people who still know her poems, who’ve hidden scraps of them away in the fold of their minds before setting match to the papers in their hands.
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Domi (the Duchess) Quotes in Our Missing Hearts
The Our Missing Hearts quotes below are all either spoken by Domi (the Duchess) or refer to Domi (the Duchess). 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:
).
Part 2, Chapter 2
Quotes
Somewhere out there, you knew, wealthy people were barricaded in their fortresses, fed and warm, if not happy, but soon you stopped thinking of them. You stopped thinking about other people at all.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Part 3, Chapter 4
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And he understands, then, how it’s going to go. How he’ll find her again. What he’s going to do next, alongside everything else his life will bring. Somewhere out there are people who still know her poems, who’ve hidden scraps of them away in the fold of their minds before setting match to the papers in their hands.
