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Dori Dilson is an inconspicuous ninth grader who writes poems in a big looseleaf notebook and is the first Mica High student to sit with Stargirl at lunch. Though angry with Stargirl when she briefly becomes “Susan,” Dori is by far Stargirl’s most loyal—and only publicly supportive—friend. She is the only Mica High student who shows up to cheer for Stargirl after the state oratorical contest.
Dori Dilson Quotes in Stargirl
The Stargirl quotes below are all either spoken by Dori Dilson or refer to Dori Dilson. 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 29
Quotes
We swung around back to the parking lot and— yes— there was a car, and another car. And people, three of them, shading their eyes in the sun, watching us. Two of them were teachers. The other was a student, Dori Dilson. She stood apart from the teachers, alone in the black shimmering sea of asphalt. As we approached, she held up a sign, a huge cardboard sign bigger than a basketball backboard. She set the sign on edge and propped it up, erasing herself. The red painted letters said:
WAY TO GO,
SUSAN
WE’RE PROUD OF
YOU
The car stopped in front of it. All that was left to see of Dori Dilson were two sets of fingers holding the sides of the sign. We were close enough now to see that the sign was trembling, and I knew that behind it Dori was crying. There was no confetti, no kazoos. Nothing cheered, not even a mockingbird.
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Dori Dilson Quotes in Stargirl
The Stargirl quotes below are all either spoken by Dori Dilson or refer to Dori Dilson. 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:
).
Chapter 29
Quotes
We swung around back to the parking lot and— yes— there was a car, and another car. And people, three of them, shading their eyes in the sun, watching us. Two of them were teachers. The other was a student, Dori Dilson. She stood apart from the teachers, alone in the black shimmering sea of asphalt. As we approached, she held up a sign, a huge cardboard sign bigger than a basketball backboard. She set the sign on edge and propped it up, erasing herself. The red painted letters said:
WAY TO GO,
SUSAN
WE’RE PROUD OF
YOU
The car stopped in front of it. All that was left to see of Dori Dilson were two sets of fingers holding the sides of the sign. We were close enough now to see that the sign was trembling, and I knew that behind it Dori was crying. There was no confetti, no kazoos. Nothing cheered, not even a mockingbird.
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