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Kennedy McQuarrie
Turk's wife. Brit is Francis Mitchum's daughter and is therefore considered the princess of the white power movement. Francis raised her by himself and raised her to believe that her mother, Adele, abandoned Brit when she was six months old. Because she was raised entrenched in the white power movement, Brit is ruthless and cruel. Her first "date" with Turk consists of beating up gay men, and while she's pregnant with Davis, she poisons their Hispanic neighbor's dog when it won't stop barking. She and Turk are thrilled when Davis is born, and Brit especially is devastated when he dies. Brit abuses sleeping pills and painkillers so she can spend most of her time asleep, and Turk fears that he's lost Brit as well as Davis. As the months go by, Brit starts to get her fire back but also starts pressuring Turk to do something tangible to honor their son. At several points throughout the trial, Brit starts crying or yelling racist slurs at Ruth. This culminates in Odette's decision to not allow Brit to testify. Though Turk begins to doubt his beliefs and whether he was complicit in Davis's death, Brit continues to believe in what the white power movement taught her about racism and blame Ruth. She experiences a mental break, however, when Brit discovers that Adele is actually black and that she herself is half black. Francis and Turk find her at Davis's grave, cutting her arm to try to get her mother's blood out of her veins. Turk explains that as he was preparing to file for divorce in the months after, Brit committed suicide—she wasn't able to live with herself knowing that she was half black.
Brit Bauer Quotes in Small Great Things
The Small Great Things quotes below are all either spoken by Brit Bauer or refer to Brit Bauer. 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 8, Kennedy
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I think about Ruth walking down the street in East End and wonder how many other residents questioned what she was doing there, even if they never said it to her face. How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious.
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Chapter 28, Turk
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My head actually aches from holding three incompatible truths in it: 1. Black people are inferior. 2. Brit is half black. 3. I love Brit with all my heart.
Shouldn't numbers one and two make number three impossible? Or is she the exception to the rule? Was Adele one, too?
I think of me and Twinkie dreaming of the food we craved behind bars.
How many exceptions do there have to be before you start to realize that maybe the truths you've been told aren't actually true?
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Brit Bauer Quotes in Small Great Things
The Small Great Things quotes below are all either spoken by Brit Bauer or refer to Brit Bauer. 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 8, Kennedy
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I think about Ruth walking down the street in East End and wonder how many other residents questioned what she was doing there, even if they never said it to her face. How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious.
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Chapter 28, Turk
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My head actually aches from holding three incompatible truths in it: 1. Black people are inferior. 2. Brit is half black. 3. I love Brit with all my heart.
Shouldn't numbers one and two make number three impossible? Or is she the exception to the rule? Was Adele one, too?
I think of me and Twinkie dreaming of the food we craved behind bars.
How many exceptions do there have to be before you start to realize that maybe the truths you've been told aren't actually true?
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