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Lina’s best friend in school. Lizzie has bright red hair and talks a mile per minute, often about herself or things that she finds interesting, but she is capable of expressing genuine care and sympathy for her friends. This begins to change when Lizzie receives the job of Supply Depot clerk, a job she’s miserable to get. When Lina sees her in the weeks after starting the job, Lizzie seems distracted and able to focus only on herself. Lina eventually discovers that this is because Lizzie has an older boyfriend at the Supply Depot, Looper, who is secretly funneling her foodstuffs most people believe ran out years ago, like pineapple and fruit cocktail. Lizzie suggests that what she’s doing isn’t wrong if Ember is failing anyway; it’s fine for her to make the most of things while she still can.
Lizzie Bisco Quotes in The City of Ember
The The City of Ember quotes below are all either spoken by Lizzie Bisco or refer to Lizzie Bisco. 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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“Is it true about the light bulbs?”
“Is what true?”
“That there aren’t very many left?”
Lizzie shrugged. “I don’t know. They hardly ever let us go down into the storerooms. All we see are the reports the carriers turn in— [...]
“But when you see the report for the light bulb rooms, what does it say?”
“I never get to see that one,” said Lizzie. “That one, and a few other ones like the vitamin report, only a few people can see.”
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Chapter 11
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And if the cans hadn’t come from a market, where had they come from? There was only one answer: they had come from the storerooms. Somehow, Lizzie had gotten them because she worked in the storeroom office. Had she paid for them? How much? Or had she taken them without paying?
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“And Lizzie—he isn’t just stealing things for you. He has a store! He steals things and sells them for huge prices!”
“He does not,” said Lizzie, but she looked worried.
“He does. I know because I bought something from him just a few weeks ago. He has a whole box of colored pencils.”
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“Looper says it’s all going to be gone soon anyway, why not live as well as we can right now?”
“But Lizzie, why should you get all that? Why you and not other people?”
“Because we found it. Because we can get at it.”
“I don’t think it’s fair,” said Lina.
Lizzie spoke as if she were talking to a not-very-bright child. “You can have some, too. That’s what I’m telling you.”
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Lizzie Bisco Quotes in The City of Ember
The The City of Ember quotes below are all either spoken by Lizzie Bisco or refer to Lizzie Bisco. 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
Quotes
“Is it true about the light bulbs?”
“Is what true?”
“That there aren’t very many left?”
Lizzie shrugged. “I don’t know. They hardly ever let us go down into the storerooms. All we see are the reports the carriers turn in— [...]
“But when you see the report for the light bulb rooms, what does it say?”
“I never get to see that one,” said Lizzie. “That one, and a few other ones like the vitamin report, only a few people can see.”
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Chapter 11
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And if the cans hadn’t come from a market, where had they come from? There was only one answer: they had come from the storerooms. Somehow, Lizzie had gotten them because she worked in the storeroom office. Had she paid for them? How much? Or had she taken them without paying?
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“And Lizzie—he isn’t just stealing things for you. He has a store! He steals things and sells them for huge prices!”
“He does not,” said Lizzie, but she looked worried.
“He does. I know because I bought something from him just a few weeks ago. He has a whole box of colored pencils.”
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“Looper says it’s all going to be gone soon anyway, why not live as well as we can right now?”
“But Lizzie, why should you get all that? Why you and not other people?”
“Because we found it. Because we can get at it.”
“I don’t think it’s fair,” said Lina.
Lizzie spoke as if she were talking to a not-very-bright child. “You can have some, too. That’s what I’m telling you.”
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