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Kylie is Tom's younger sister; she's about fifteen. For much of the novel, Kylie is closed off and volatilely angry with Tom and her parents, though she does seek friendship and community at school when she makes friends with Brianna. She's far more trusting of others than Tom is, as she tells Brianna about what happened to the Brennans in Mumbilli. To cope with her grief and her fear, Kylie starts wearing dark makeup and uses an obscene amount of product in her hair, which Tom insists makes it smell bad and doesn't look good at all. After the Brennans have been in Coghill for a few months, Kylie gives a speech on terrorism in one of her classes. In it, she talks about the abuse that her family suffered after Daniel’s sentencing hearing and effectively makes the family secret common knowledge. She later tells Tom that she did it thinking it would help her feel better but didn't think about how her actions would affect Tom. Tom finds Kylie's behavior as a whole perplexing until she admits to him that she has a secret: she actually fanned the flames of conflict between Fin and Daniel in the week before the accident. She was fed up with Daniel's behavior and thus turned her attention to helping Fin see Claire in secret. Because of this, she blames herself for the accident. To help make up for her role in the accident, Kylie throws herself into helping Fin when he moves home from rehab.
Kylie Brennan Quotes in The Story of Tom Brennan
The The Story of Tom Brennan quotes below are all either spoken by Kylie Brennan or refer to Kylie Brennan. 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 Seven
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The thought of Dad hurting and the possibility that he could drop his bundle at any moment was too much for me to swallow.
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Chapter Nine
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"But remember your fellow man, Daniel, because life is more than just a one-man show. Everything we do in this life affects others. Did you think of that the night you got behind the wheel, your trusting passengers the loved ones of others? We think probably not."
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Chapter Twelve
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My breath panted at the back of my throat. He knew? Jimmy knew?
"We're your mates, Tom, " Rory started. "We're part of a..."
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Chapter Sixteen
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"We were fighting all the time. The new young players were shit-scared. If you had a bad game you were dead meat. It wasn't about us, it was all about the Wattle Shield. We stopped looking out for each other."
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"They couldn't control Dan. They were scared of him. Well, scared of the consequences if they tried to pull him into line [...] Maybe Daniel was always going to do something like this. Maybe he had to fall this far."
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Kylie Brennan Quotes in The Story of Tom Brennan
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Chapter Seven
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The thought of Dad hurting and the possibility that he could drop his bundle at any moment was too much for me to swallow.
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Chapter Nine
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"But remember your fellow man, Daniel, because life is more than just a one-man show. Everything we do in this life affects others. Did you think of that the night you got behind the wheel, your trusting passengers the loved ones of others? We think probably not."
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Chapter Twelve
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My breath panted at the back of my throat. He knew? Jimmy knew?
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Chapter Sixteen
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"We were fighting all the time. The new young players were shit-scared. If you had a bad game you were dead meat. It wasn't about us, it was all about the Wattle Shield. We stopped looking out for each other."
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"They couldn't control Dan. They were scared of him. Well, scared of the consequences if they tried to pull him into line [...] Maybe Daniel was always going to do something like this. Maybe he had to fall this far."
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