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Aubrey’s sister. Mo lives with Kasey, her girlfriend. When Nadia discovers this, she’s surprised, given that being gay in the Upper Room community is a “big deal.” Of course, Mo herself isn’t part of the Upper Room community, but Aubrey is so religious that Nadia would never have guessed that she lives with lesbians. Mo hates her mother and is upset when Aubrey wants to invite her to the wedding, but the dispute eventually becomes unimportant when their mother declines the invitation. In general, Mo acts as if she is Aubrey’s mother, since she and Kasey took Aubrey into their home when Aubrey finally decided to flee from Paul, her mother’s sexually abusive boyfriend.
Monique (Mo) Quotes in The Mothers
The The Mothers quotes below are all either spoken by Monique (Mo) or refer to Monique (Mo). 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 Four
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How could a woman like that kill herself? Aubrey knew it was a stupid question—anyone could kill herself, if she wanted to badly enough. Mo said that it was physiological. Misfired synapses, unbalanced chemicals in the brain, the whole body a machine with a few tripped wires that had caused it to self-destruct. But people weren’t just their bodies, right? The decision to kill yourself had to be more complicated than that.
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Monique (Mo) Quotes in The Mothers
The The Mothers quotes below are all either spoken by Monique (Mo) or refer to Monique (Mo). 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 Four
Quotes
How could a woman like that kill herself? Aubrey knew it was a stupid question—anyone could kill herself, if she wanted to badly enough. Mo said that it was physiological. Misfired synapses, unbalanced chemicals in the brain, the whole body a machine with a few tripped wires that had caused it to self-destruct. But people weren’t just their bodies, right? The decision to kill yourself had to be more complicated than that.
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