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Dorothy “Doro” March
June is David Henry’s deceased sister. June died in her youth from heart failure after years of illness, and her loss is in part why David gives Phoebe away—he knows that Down syndrome children have a higher risk of congenital heart defects, and he wants to spare Norah the pain of losing her early.
June Quotes in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
The The Memory Keeper’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by June or refer to June. 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 7: May 1965
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He took a deep breath, fighting a wave of vertigo, afraid even to glance at Norah. He had wanted to spare her, to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. Nor had he anticipated his own grief, woven with the dark threads of his past. When he imagined the daughter he’d given away, it was his sister’s face he saw, her pale hair, her serious smile.
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June Quotes in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
The The Memory Keeper’s Daughter quotes below are all either spoken by June or refer to June. 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 7: May 1965
Quotes
He took a deep breath, fighting a wave of vertigo, afraid even to glance at Norah. He had wanted to spare her, to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. Nor had he anticipated his own grief, woven with the dark threads of his past. When he imagined the daughter he’d given away, it was his sister’s face he saw, her pale hair, her serious smile.
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