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Tito Danilo is Jay’s uncle and brother to Tito Maning, Jay’s dad, and Tita Chato. He’s a Catholic priest who works in a remote parish. Tito Danilo is kind, gentle, and empathetic. Eventually, Jay learns that Tito Danilo was one of the last people to see Jun before he died. He’s also the one to tell Jay and Grace that Jun had by that point become an addict and was selling drugs. Even more surprisingly, Tito Maning had called Tito Danilo and asked him to help Jun recover. Tito Danilo also reveals that Jun was killed by a vigilante, not by the government. Before his death, Jun was disappointed by Tito Danilo’s decision to join the church, because Jun believed that the Catholic church was inherently corrupt. While Tito Danilo is saddened by Jun’s death, Jay comes to believe that Jun was partly right about Tito Danilo’s hypocrisy, because Tito Danilo believes that the church has no responsibility to the victims of the drug war. At the end of the novel, Tito Danilo assists in the memorial that Jay and Grace hold for Jun and insists that Jun’s goodness will be remembered. This helps Jay come to terms with the fact that people can be good and bad at the same time.
Tito Danilo Quotes in Patron Saints of Nothing
The Patron Saints of Nothing quotes below are all either spoken by Tito Danilo or refer to Tito Danilo. 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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New Life
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Tito Danilo continues. “And later, he started selling.”
“But why?” Grace asks, desperate.
“Shabu is a hunger suppressant. You see, it is cheaper than food, so many of the poor start for this reason, and then they become addicted. As for why he started selling? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe to make money to keep feeding his addiction.”
I close my eyes, as if doing so will rewind the story erasing everything Tito Danilo has just told us. As if it will stop the warping truth. I can't reconcile this version of Jun with the one I had come to know to love, to admire.
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To Resurrect
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In the car with Tito Danilo and Grace on the way back to Lolo and Lola's, I think about how there's a new grief in remembering Jun now, knowing what eventually happened, knowing that he was more than my idea of him in ways I do not like, knowing that there's probably so much more I'll never know.
I was determined to find the truth. And I did—at least a piece of it. But was it worth it? What do I even do now?
This didn't play out how I thought it would.
I expected the truth to illuminate, to resurrect.
Not to ruin.
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All the Darkness in the World
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“Jun died a tragic death before his time. But that does not extinguish the good that he did on this earth. It lives on in the lives that he touched, and like a single candle's flame, it can grow and make what is dark light.” He pauses to let that sink in. “I invite each of you now to light your own candle from his, signifying that his goodness, his love, has multiplied through the ways he touched each of us, will continue to multiply through those we will go on touch.”
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Tito Danilo Quotes in Patron Saints of Nothing
The Patron Saints of Nothing quotes below are all either spoken by Tito Danilo or refer to Tito Danilo. 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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New Life
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Tito Danilo continues. “And later, he started selling.”
“But why?” Grace asks, desperate.
“Shabu is a hunger suppressant. You see, it is cheaper than food, so many of the poor start for this reason, and then they become addicted. As for why he started selling? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe to make money to keep feeding his addiction.”
I close my eyes, as if doing so will rewind the story erasing everything Tito Danilo has just told us. As if it will stop the warping truth. I can't reconcile this version of Jun with the one I had come to know to love, to admire.
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To Resurrect
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In the car with Tito Danilo and Grace on the way back to Lolo and Lola's, I think about how there's a new grief in remembering Jun now, knowing what eventually happened, knowing that he was more than my idea of him in ways I do not like, knowing that there's probably so much more I'll never know.
I was determined to find the truth. And I did—at least a piece of it. But was it worth it? What do I even do now?
This didn't play out how I thought it would.
I expected the truth to illuminate, to resurrect.
Not to ruin.
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All the Darkness in the World
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“Jun died a tragic death before his time. But that does not extinguish the good that he did on this earth. It lives on in the lives that he touched, and like a single candle's flame, it can grow and make what is dark light.” He pauses to let that sink in. “I invite each of you now to light your own candle from his, signifying that his goodness, his love, has multiplied through the ways he touched each of us, will continue to multiply through those we will go on touch.”
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