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Mr. Montgomery-Taylor
Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor is Allie’s foster mother and Mr. Montgomery-Taylor’s wife. While Allie believed that Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor was simply an idle bystander to Allie’s abuse, at the end of the novel Allie realizes that it was in fact Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor who told her husband to abuse and rape Allie. This information completely upends Allie’s understanding of her life, as she (and the voice) had tried to simplify her worldview to believe that men were bad, and women were good.
Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor Quotes in The Power
The The Power quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor or refer to Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor. 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 6: Allie
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“Saw you. Saw you in the graveyard with those boys. Filthy. Little. Whore.” Each word punctuated with a punch, or a slap, or a kick. She doesn’t roll into a ball. She doesn’t beg him to stop. She knows it only makes it go on longer. He pushes her knees apart. His hand is at his belt. He’s going to show her what kind of a little whore she is. As if he hadn’t shown her many times in the past.
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Chapter 42
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Look, I’m not even real. Or not real like you think “real” means. I’m here to tell you what you want to hear.
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Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor Quotes in The Power
The The Power quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor or refer to Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor. 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 6: Allie
Quotes
“Saw you. Saw you in the graveyard with those boys. Filthy. Little. Whore.” Each word punctuated with a punch, or a slap, or a kick. She doesn’t roll into a ball. She doesn’t beg him to stop. She knows it only makes it go on longer. He pushes her knees apart. His hand is at his belt. He’s going to show her what kind of a little whore she is. As if he hadn’t shown her many times in the past.
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Chapter 42
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Look, I’m not even real. Or not real like you think “real” means. I’m here to tell you what you want to hear.
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