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Winifred Griffen Prior
Sabrina is Iris’s estranged granddaughter. Sabrina is only four years old when her mother, Aimee, dies in an incident that may or may not have been suicide. Before that, she was neglected due to Aimee’s substance abuse issues. Aimee never reveals who Sabrina’s father is, and Sabrina’s great-aunt Winifred becomes her guardian after Aimee’s death. Sabrina runs away from Winifred’s home several times as a teenager and she ends up going to live in India, where she engages in charity work. After Iris dies, Sabrina returns to Port Ticonderoga to sort through her grandmother’s belongings. The manuscript Iris writes—which is the main narrative of Atwood’s novel—is addressed to Sabrina.
Sabrina Griffen Quotes in The Blind Assassin
The The Blind Assassin quotes below are all either spoken by Sabrina Griffen or refer to Sabrina Griffen. 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 7
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She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.
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Chapter 15
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The photo has been cut; a third of it has been cut off. In the lower left corner there’s a hand, scissored off at the wrist, resting on the grass. It’s the hand of the other one, the one who is always in the picture whether seen or not. The hand that will set things down.
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Sabrina Griffen Quotes in The Blind Assassin
The The Blind Assassin quotes below are all either spoken by Sabrina Griffen or refer to Sabrina Griffen. 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 7
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She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.
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Chapter 15
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The photo has been cut; a third of it has been cut off. In the lower left corner there’s a hand, scissored off at the wrist, resting on the grass. It’s the hand of the other one, the one who is always in the picture whether seen or not. The hand that will set things down.
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