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Mr. Bender
Allys is a classmate of Jenna Fox’s at the tiny village charter school Jenna starts attending in California. In the novel’s science-fictional near future, most infections are now antibiotic-resistant due to antibiotic overuse. When Allys suffered from a runaway bacterial infection, it led to a quadruple amputation and severe organ damage. As a result, Allys has four prosthetic limbs and takes a great deal of medication. Because Allys has suffered so much due to antibiotic overuse, she enthusiastically supports the strict regulation of medical treatment and research. After she discovers that Jenna is a cyborg with an illegal amount of unregulated biotechnology in her body, she tells her parents and asks them to report Jenna to the authorities. However, when Allys’s organs start failing due to all the damage she’s suffered, her parents instead go to Matthew and Claire Fox, asking them to save Allys using illegal technology like they saved Jenna. As a result, Allys survives, becoming a cyborg like Jenna—and the two girls end up living together for centuries, long after their other loved ones have died.
Allys Quotes in The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The The Adoration of Jenna Fox quotes below are all either spoken by Allys or refer to Allys. 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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Pages 3–91
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What kind of person was Jenna Fox that she didn’t have any friends?
Was she someone I even want to remember?
Everyone should have at least one friend.
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“He’s missing something. I mean, really missing something[.]”
Pages 92–190
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She has accepted the loss of her limbs but blames an out-of-control medical system for the outcome. She thinks if someone had regulated antibiotics long ago, when they first knew about the dangers of overuse, she and millions like her would have had a different fate, and now she seems determined that no new medical injustices will be unleashed on the world.
“You have to draw the line somewhere, don’t you? Medical costs are a terrible economic drain on society, not to mention the ethics involved. And by restricting how much can be replaced or enhanced, the FSEB knows you are more human than lab creation. We don’t want a lot of half-human lab pets crawling all around the world, do we?”
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I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests. That would be Dane.
“They aren’t perfect, but none of us are ever exactly what we want to be, right?”
Without knowing it, she called me a lab pet. Why am I so drawn to someone who could destroy me? Why do I need her to be my friend?
The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.
Pages 191–265
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I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they’re written in a dictionary. Identities aren’t always separate and distinct. Sometimes they are wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender’s garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.
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Allys Quotes in The Adoration of Jenna Fox
The The Adoration of Jenna Fox quotes below are all either spoken by Allys or refer to Allys. 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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Pages 3–91
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What kind of person was Jenna Fox that she didn’t have any friends?
Was she someone I even want to remember?
Everyone should have at least one friend.
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“He’s missing something. I mean, really missing something[.]”
Pages 92–190
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She has accepted the loss of her limbs but blames an out-of-control medical system for the outcome. She thinks if someone had regulated antibiotics long ago, when they first knew about the dangers of overuse, she and millions like her would have had a different fate, and now she seems determined that no new medical injustices will be unleashed on the world.
“You have to draw the line somewhere, don’t you? Medical costs are a terrible economic drain on society, not to mention the ethics involved. And by restricting how much can be replaced or enhanced, the FSEB knows you are more human than lab creation. We don’t want a lot of half-human lab pets crawling all around the world, do we?”
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I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests. That would be Dane.
“They aren’t perfect, but none of us are ever exactly what we want to be, right?”
Without knowing it, she called me a lab pet. Why am I so drawn to someone who could destroy me? Why do I need her to be my friend?
The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.
Pages 191–265
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I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they’re written in a dictionary. Identities aren’t always separate and distinct. Sometimes they are wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender’s garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.
