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Millie is Turner’s wife. Having grown up in Virginia at the same time Turner was coming of age in Florida, she knows what it’s like to face discrimination, though she can hardly fathom the horror he has been through. In fact, she doesn’t even know about his past at Nickel Academy until he tells her years after they get married. When she finally finds out, though, she reacts with kindness and support. Millie wants to hear everything, saying that Turner is going to have to tell her his entire story so that she fully understands and he can process his trauma.
Millie Quotes in The Nickel Boys
The The Nickel Boys quotes below are all either spoken by Millie or refer to Millie. 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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In some ways Turner had been telling Elwood’s story ever since his friend died, through years and years of revisions, of getting it right, as he stopped being the desperate alley cat of his youth and turned into a man he thought Elwood would have been proud of. It was not enough to survive, you have to live—he heard Elwood’s voice as he walked down Broadway in the sunlight or at the end of a long night hunched over the books.
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Millie Quotes in The Nickel Boys
The The Nickel Boys quotes below are all either spoken by Millie or refer to Millie. 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:
).
Epilogue
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In some ways Turner had been telling Elwood’s story ever since his friend died, through years and years of revisions, of getting it right, as he stopped being the desperate alley cat of his youth and turned into a man he thought Elwood would have been proud of. It was not enough to survive, you have to live—he heard Elwood’s voice as he walked down Broadway in the sunlight or at the end of a long night hunched over the books.
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