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Robbie Cormier is a Black student who attended Beacon Smith High School with Alix and Kelley in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In high school, Robbie was a star athlete, and he was also funny, attractive, and popular with students and teachers alike. Kelley and Robbie became friends following Kelley’s breakup with Alix, and they remain good friends as adults. Robbie played a major role in Kelley’s breakup with Alix, though at the end of the novel, it’s revealed that Alix has misconstrued this role. In high school, a locker malfunction (Robbie’s locker is directly below Kelley’s) causes a love letter that Alix had written for Kelley to slip into Robbie’s locker. In the letter, Alix invited Kelley to come over to her house while her parents were away for the weekend. When Robbie and his friends (many of whom, like Robbie, were Black) later arrived at Alix’s house uninvited, Alix assumed that Kelley broke her trust, showed Robbie the letter, and orchestrated the situation to get Robbie’s popular, predominantly Black friend group to accept him. Enraged, Alix ended up calling the police on the kids; Robbie was arrested, and he lost his college scholarship a result. In no time, everyone turned on Alix and accused her of being racist and elitist; Kelley broke up with her and became close friends with Robbie and his crowd. Even though Alix soon discovers the truth about the letter, she publicly maintains her initial story to continue playing the victim. She also cites Kelley’s friendship with Robbie as evidence that Kelley is fetishizing Emira’s Blackness.
Robbie Cormier Quotes in Such a Fun Age
The Such a Fun Age quotes below are all either spoken by Robbie Cormier or refer to Robbie Cormier. 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
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Somehow, even worse, that night at the Murphy house accomplished everything Kelley had evidently hoped it would. Alex learned that Kelley had left her house only to run into Robbie’s fleeing friends on the street. He drove them to the precinct, where they waited all night until Robbie was released. Kelley was the one to drive Robbie home.
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Chapter 21
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Alix pivoted. “At first I was just so stunned to see him at all. But knowing him as well as I did, I became a little concerned about his reasons for dating you.”
Emira flinched and looked at the floor. “I don’t know. I think I’m like . . . pretty chill and dateable.”
“I’m not finished.” Alix held up a flat hand in the air. “If you think I’m going to sit back while you try to look cool with someone who is like family to me, then you’re crazy.” Alix took a second to pause for effect. “If you’re still okay fetishizing black people like you did in high school, fine. Just don’t pull that shit with my sitter.”
“You act like what happened to you was worse than what happened to Robbie, even though—let’s not even go there. If you love Emira so much, then let her wear what she wants,” Kelley jeered. “I’m sure I didn’t handle things well back in high school. I was seventeen, I was an idiot. But at least I’m not still requiring a uniform for someone who works for me so I can pretend like I own them.”
“Ohmygod!” Alix formed fists with both hands on the table. “You have no idea what you’re talking about. She asked! I lent her a shirt!”
“You lend her the same shirt? Every day? In the business we call that a uniform.”
“You are so completely out of line.”
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Chapter 27
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Kelley was the guy who ruined her senior year, much in the same way that her name was spelled A-l-i-x.
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Robbie Cormier Quotes in Such a Fun Age
The Such a Fun Age quotes below are all either spoken by Robbie Cormier or refer to Robbie Cormier. 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
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Somehow, even worse, that night at the Murphy house accomplished everything Kelley had evidently hoped it would. Alex learned that Kelley had left her house only to run into Robbie’s fleeing friends on the street. He drove them to the precinct, where they waited all night until Robbie was released. Kelley was the one to drive Robbie home.
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Chapter 21
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Alix pivoted. “At first I was just so stunned to see him at all. But knowing him as well as I did, I became a little concerned about his reasons for dating you.”
Emira flinched and looked at the floor. “I don’t know. I think I’m like . . . pretty chill and dateable.”
“I’m not finished.” Alix held up a flat hand in the air. “If you think I’m going to sit back while you try to look cool with someone who is like family to me, then you’re crazy.” Alix took a second to pause for effect. “If you’re still okay fetishizing black people like you did in high school, fine. Just don’t pull that shit with my sitter.”
“You act like what happened to you was worse than what happened to Robbie, even though—let’s not even go there. If you love Emira so much, then let her wear what she wants,” Kelley jeered. “I’m sure I didn’t handle things well back in high school. I was seventeen, I was an idiot. But at least I’m not still requiring a uniform for someone who works for me so I can pretend like I own them.”
“Ohmygod!” Alix formed fists with both hands on the table. “You have no idea what you’re talking about. She asked! I lent her a shirt!”
“You lend her the same shirt? Every day? In the business we call that a uniform.”
“You are so completely out of line.”
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Chapter 27
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Kelley was the guy who ruined her senior year, much in the same way that her name was spelled A-l-i-x.
