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A young man a few years older than Lina and Doon who works in the storerooms and runs a shop. Lina describes him as funny looking: he’s unkempt, has a prominent Adam’s apple, and walks with a bit of a limp. Looper seems like a tangential and unimportant citizen to Lina and Doon until Lina discovers that in Looper’s dusty shop, he has a box filled with colored pencils. His sales technique is designed to make Lina feel anxious and bad about herself, and he succeeds in selling her two exorbitantly priced pencils. Later, Lina discovers that it’s no accident that Looper has colored pencils—through Lizzie, who’s dating Looper, Lina discovers that Looper is stealing things out of storerooms people thought were empty. Rather than sharing them with everyone, however, Looper operates under the belief that if things are as bad as they seem, it’s only right that he should live as well as he can. Lina and Doon also discover that Looper is in cahoots with Mayor Cole and is funneling supplies to the mayor’s secret room in the Pipeworks.
Looper Windley Quotes in The City of Ember
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Chapter 5
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Later, in her bedroom, with Poppy asleep, she took the two colored pencils from her pocket. They were not quite as beautiful as they had been. When she held them, she remembered the powerful wanting she had felt in that dusty store, and the feeling of it was mixed up with fear and shame and darkness.
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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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Looper Windley Quotes in The City of Ember
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Chapter 5
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Later, in her bedroom, with Poppy asleep, she took the two colored pencils from her pocket. They were not quite as beautiful as they had been. When she held them, she remembered the powerful wanting she had felt in that dusty store, and the feeling of it was mixed up with fear and shame and darkness.
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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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