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Dean is Harri’s best friend from school. Together, the two of them investigate the murder of the dead boy, inspired by Dean’s love of the CSI television show. Dean is a redhead and is teased about this by the other kids at school. However, Harri concludes that he “doesn’t even care if [Dean] has orange hair. That’s what makes him so brainy (a detective’s best skill).”
Dean Quotes in Pigeon English
The Pigeon English quotes below are all either spoken by Dean or refer to Dean. 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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June
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Signs of guilt include:
Ants in your pant
Talking too fast
Always looking around you like you've lost something
Smoking too much
Crying too much
Scratching
Biting your fingers
Spitting
Sudden bouts of violence
Uncontrolled gas (farting a lot)
Religious hysteria
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I love it when you get a good surprise. Like the cement being there just waiting for us to write in it or like when you think somebody will be rubbish at something and then you find out they're actually brilliant at it. It was the same with Manik: nobody suspected him to be such a good goalie because he's so fat, but actually Manik's a brilliant goalie. It's impossible to score against him. Nothing ever gets past him […] I didn't think Dean would be such a good climber because he has orange hair. I just didn't suspect it. But actually he's a brilliant climber.
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Dean Quotes in Pigeon English
The Pigeon English quotes below are all either spoken by Dean or refer to Dean. 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:
).
June
Quotes
Signs of guilt include:
Ants in your pant
Talking too fast
Always looking around you like you've lost something
Smoking too much
Crying too much
Scratching
Biting your fingers
Spitting
Sudden bouts of violence
Uncontrolled gas (farting a lot)
Religious hysteria
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I love it when you get a good surprise. Like the cement being there just waiting for us to write in it or like when you think somebody will be rubbish at something and then you find out they're actually brilliant at it. It was the same with Manik: nobody suspected him to be such a good goalie because he's so fat, but actually Manik's a brilliant goalie. It's impossible to score against him. Nothing ever gets past him […] I didn't think Dean would be such a good climber because he has orange hair. I just didn't suspect it. But actually he's a brilliant climber.
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