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Daniel’s best friend from Ridgeborough. Roland is Mexican-American, and like Daniel, is missing a parent, since his father died when he was young. As one of the only other people of color in Ridgeborough, he finds it easy to relate to Daniel, and the two become fast friends, listening to music and eventually forming a number of bands together. Outgoing and likable, Roland is a good front man. When he and Daniel are 21, they establish a band called Psychic Hearts. Roland, for his part, becomes obsessed with writing music that will impress a booker named Hutch, and though the songs he pens are trendy and popular, Daniel finds them uninteresting. Nevertheless, he moves to New York after leaving SUNY Potsdam, crashing on Roland’s couch and playing in Psychic Hearts. Before long, people start to talk about the band, but Daniel is too preoccupied with his personal life to devote himself to the project, so Roland kicks him out, replacing him with another guitarist. Despite this falling out, though, he later reaches out to Daniel and tells him that he misses him.
Roland Fuentes Quotes in The Leavers
The The Leavers quotes below are all either spoken by Roland Fuentes or refer to Roland Fuentes. 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 2
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Being surrounded by other Chinese people had become so strange. In high school, kids said they never thought of him as Asian or Roland as Mexican, like it was a compliment.
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Chapter 8
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On the corner of Grand and Lafayette, the address for the poker club reverberated in his mind. He headed south to where Howard Street crossed over to Hester. It wasn’t too late, he could turn and go right to Roland’s, go right past the building, which was narrow, no doorman, only an intercom. He checked his phone; no messages. He was frightened by how much he was about to fuck up, by his lack of desire to stop himself, the rising anticipation at the prospect of falling down, failing harder, and going straight to tilt; he’d known from the moment he left the bar exactly where he would end up. He pressed the intercom button.
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Chapter 15
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In the end, he hadn’t been able to do what Peter and Kay wanted. Three more semesters of classes, followed by graduate school. Staying upstate. He hadn’t been able to do what Roland wanted either, play the music Roland wanted him to play.
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Roland Fuentes Quotes in The Leavers
The The Leavers quotes below are all either spoken by Roland Fuentes or refer to Roland Fuentes. 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 2
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Being surrounded by other Chinese people had become so strange. In high school, kids said they never thought of him as Asian or Roland as Mexican, like it was a compliment.
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Chapter 8
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On the corner of Grand and Lafayette, the address for the poker club reverberated in his mind. He headed south to where Howard Street crossed over to Hester. It wasn’t too late, he could turn and go right to Roland’s, go right past the building, which was narrow, no doorman, only an intercom. He checked his phone; no messages. He was frightened by how much he was about to fuck up, by his lack of desire to stop himself, the rising anticipation at the prospect of falling down, failing harder, and going straight to tilt; he’d known from the moment he left the bar exactly where he would end up. He pressed the intercom button.
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Chapter 15
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In the end, he hadn’t been able to do what Peter and Kay wanted. Three more semesters of classes, followed by graduate school. Staying upstate. He hadn’t been able to do what Roland wanted either, play the music Roland wanted him to play.
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