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Nadine is a young Haitian American nurse living in Canarsie, Brooklyn. An extremely isolated person, she seems to be struggling to cope with a recent abortion and breakup with her ex-boyfriend, Eric. She has a strained relationship with her parents, who sold their house in Port-au-Prince in order to pay for her nursing degree. Although she faithfully sends them over half her paycheck every month, she doesn’t call them or reply to the letters they regularly send.
Nadine Osnac Quotes in The Dew Breaker
The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Nadine Osnac or refer to Nadine Osnac. 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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This was what they’d sacrificed everything for. But she always knew that she would repay them. And she had, with half her salary every month, and sometimes more. In return, what she got was the chance to parent them rather than have them parent her. Calling them, however, on the rare occasions that she actually called rather than received their calls, always made her wish to be the one guarded, rather than the guardian, to be reassured now and then that some wounds could heal, that some decisions would not haunt her forever.
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Nadine Osnac Quotes in The Dew Breaker
The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Nadine Osnac or refer to Nadine Osnac. 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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This was what they’d sacrificed everything for. But she always knew that she would repay them. And she had, with half her salary every month, and sometimes more. In return, what she got was the chance to parent them rather than have them parent her. Calling them, however, on the rare occasions that she actually called rather than received their calls, always made her wish to be the one guarded, rather than the guardian, to be reassured now and then that some wounds could heal, that some decisions would not haunt her forever.
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