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Catherine Chamberlain is Alix and Peter’s infant daughter—and she’s clearly Alix’s favorite child: while Alix takes Catherine everywhere with her, she hires Emira to care for Briar. Still, Alix seems to view Catherine as more of an accessory than a person: she likes her because she’s sweet and docile and doesn’t disrupt Alix’s life very much. Though Briar is barely three years old, she can already sense that Catherine is Alix’s favorite child, and she cries about this to Emira on Thanksgiving. Emira’s (harsh but reasonable) parting words to Alix are to start acting like she likes Briar before it’s too late.
Catherine Chamberlain Quotes in Such a Fun Age
The Such a Fun Age quotes below are all either spoken by Catherine Chamberlain or refer to Catherine Chamberlain. 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 4
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If the decision had been Briar’s, the theme of her party would have been glasses because the toddler savagely wanted glasses, and to touch everyone else’s glasses, and to see how she looked in all of the glasses. But Briar also loved airplanes and pointing at them and the sounds they made, and Alix felt that this, out of all of Briar’s other interests (smelling tea bags, other people’s belly buttons, touching the soft skin on Mama’s earlobe), should be openly encouraged.
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Catherine Chamberlain Quotes in Such a Fun Age
The Such a Fun Age quotes below are all either spoken by Catherine Chamberlain or refer to Catherine Chamberlain. 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 4
Quotes
If the decision had been Briar’s, the theme of her party would have been glasses because the toddler savagely wanted glasses, and to touch everyone else’s glasses, and to see how she looked in all of the glasses. But Briar also loved airplanes and pointing at them and the sounds they made, and Alix felt that this, out of all of Briar’s other interests (smelling tea bags, other people’s belly buttons, touching the soft skin on Mama’s earlobe), should be openly encouraged.
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