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Sister Agnes is one of the nuns who raised Duchess after his father Mr. Hewett abandoned him at an orphanage. She teaches a young Duchess about atonement and guilt, which fosters his later obsession with “settling the debts” of people who have wronged him. When Emmett meets her, Sister Agnes asks him to be charitable towards Duchess despite how Duchess has deceived and betrayed him.
Sister Agnes Quotes in The Lincoln Highway
The The Lincoln Highway quotes below are all either spoken by Sister Agnes or refer to Sister Agnes. 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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9. Duchess
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In the course of our lives, [Sister Agnes] had said, we may do wrong unto others and others may do wrong unto us, resulting in the aforementioned chains. But another way to express the same idea was that through our misdeeds we put ourselves in another person’s debt, just as through their misdeeds they put themselves in ours. And since it’s these debts––those we’ve incurred and those we’re owed––that keep us stirring and stewing in the early hours, the only way to get a good night’s sleep is to balance the accounts.
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Sister Agnes Quotes in The Lincoln Highway
The The Lincoln Highway quotes below are all either spoken by Sister Agnes or refer to Sister Agnes. 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:
).
9. Duchess
Quotes
In the course of our lives, [Sister Agnes] had said, we may do wrong unto others and others may do wrong unto us, resulting in the aforementioned chains. But another way to express the same idea was that through our misdeeds we put ourselves in another person’s debt, just as through their misdeeds they put themselves in ours. And since it’s these debts––those we’ve incurred and those we’re owed––that keep us stirring and stewing in the early hours, the only way to get a good night’s sleep is to balance the accounts.
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