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Howard is the first man with whom Norah has an extramarital affair. Norah and David meet Howard while on vacation in Aruba, and while David and Howard discuss their shared interests in art and photography, Norah develops an attraction to Howard. The two of them spend much of the vacation in Aruba making love in secret, and Norah doesn’t learn until later that Paul and David knew what she was doing the entire time.
Howard Quotes in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
The The Memory Keeper’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Howard or refer to Howard. 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 11: July 1977
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The photographs they were discussing were all of her: her hips, her skin, her hands, her hair. And yet she was excluded from the conversation: object, not subject. […] She had tried, by posing for David, to ease some of the distance that had grown between them. His fault, hers—it didn’t really matter. But watching David now, absorbed in his explanation, she understood that he did not really see her and hadn’t for years.
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Howard Quotes in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
The The Memory Keeper’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by Howard or refer to Howard. 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:
).
Chapter 11: July 1977
Quotes
The photographs they were discussing were all of her: her hips, her skin, her hands, her hair. And yet she was excluded from the conversation: object, not subject. […] She had tried, by posing for David, to ease some of the distance that had grown between them. His fault, hers—it didn’t really matter. But watching David now, absorbed in his explanation, she understood that he did not really see her and hadn’t for years.
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