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Bunna Heng / The Healer
The housekeeper is the original Sopeap Sin, who worked for Soriyan while she was still a professor and her family was still alive. Although Soriyan previously thought little of the housekeeper, when the Khmer Rouge soldiers came to kill Soriyan and Samnang, the housekeeper nobly pretended that she herself was Soriyan, sacrificing her life so that the real Soriyan might be spared. Although this act saved Soriyan’s life, the event also filled her with guilt, prompting her to keep Sopeap Sin’s name as her own and send anonymous payments to the housekeeper’s surviving family for the rest of her life.
The Housekeeper / Sopeap Sin Quotes in The Rent Collector
The The Rent Collector quotes below are all either spoken by The Housekeeper / Sopeap Sin or refer to The Housekeeper / Sopeap Sin. 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 Fourteen
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“Words are like ropes […] We use them to pull ourselves up, but if we are not careful, they can also bind us down—at times by our own doing.”
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Chapter Twenty-Five
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The soldier behind Samnang furrowed his brow in confusion and then cast a glance at another, perhaps his superior. Sopeap didn’t offer either man time for mental debate. The girl I’d berated moments before carried herself like a woman of culture, a wife, a mother, a queen.
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The Housekeeper / Sopeap Sin Quotes in The Rent Collector
The The Rent Collector quotes below are all either spoken by The Housekeeper / Sopeap Sin or refer to The Housekeeper / Sopeap Sin. 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 Fourteen
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“Words are like ropes […] We use them to pull ourselves up, but if we are not careful, they can also bind us down—at times by our own doing.”
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Chapter Twenty-Five
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The soldier behind Samnang furrowed his brow in confusion and then cast a glance at another, perhaps his superior. Sopeap didn’t offer either man time for mental debate. The girl I’d berated moments before carried herself like a woman of culture, a wife, a mother, a queen.
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