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Agnes Jemima / Aunt Victoria
Nicole is Agnes’s half-sister, the grown version of Baby Nicole, and the third narrator. After being smuggled out of Gilead as an infant, Nicole grows up in Canada believing that her name is Daisy, that her birth parents are Neil and Melanie, and that she is just like any other teenager. However, after Gilead operatives kill Neil and Melanie with a car bomb, Melanie’s friend Ada takes Nicole underground and explains that Neil and Melanie were not her biological parents. They were actually Mayday operatives who adopted her, and Nicole herself is the daughter of a Handmaid and a Gilead refugee. Neil and Melanie’s death and this revealed information sweeps Nicole into the Mayday resistance’s operation, particularly because their contact in Gilead wants Nicole to infiltrate her way into the country, receive information that could bring Gilead’s downfall, and escape again. Although Nicole is overwhelmed and hesitant to get involved, the other operatives assume that she consents, and so she becomes a semi-willing participant in their plan. With a minimal amount of training, Nicole assumes the name Jade and enters Gilead by posing as a homeless teenager who converts to Gilead’s faith. There she meets Agnes and Becka, who attempt to teach her to be modest and submissive, with limited success. After several weeks, Lydia reveals herself to Nicole as Mayday’s mysterious contact and also reveals that Agnes is Nicole’s half-sister. After having Lydia’s cache of damning information implanted into her arm, Nicole escapes from Gilead with Agnes, and the two pretend to be missionaries in order to deliver the documents and data to Canadian media outlets. Agnes and Nicole then finally meet their biological mother, the former Handmaid Offred.
Nicole / Daisy / Jade Quotes in The Testaments
The The Testaments quotes below are all either spoken by Nicole / Daisy / Jade or refer to Nicole / Daisy / Jade. 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 8
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I’d basically disliked Baby Nicole since I’d had to do a paper on her. I’d got a C because I’d said she was being used as a football by both sides, and it would be the greatest happiness of the greatest number just to give her back.
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Chapter 32
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“Gilead’s not shy about killing,” said Ada. “They’re fanatics.” She said they were supposed to be dedicated to virtuous godly living, but you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.
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Chapter 44
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Aunt Beatrice ordered in pizza for lunch, which we had with ice cream from the freezer. I said I was surprised that they were eating junk food: wasn’t Gilead against it, especially for women?
“It’s part of our tests as Pearl Girls,” said Aunt Dove. “We’re supposed to sample the fleshpot temptations of the outside world in order to understand them, and then reject them in our hearts.” She took another bite of pizza.
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Chapter 62
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As we went north, the friendliness decreased: there were angry looks, and I had the feeling that our Pearl Girls mission and even the whole Gilead thing was leaking popularity. No one spat at us, but they scowled as if they would like to.
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Nicole / Daisy / Jade Quotes in The Testaments
The The Testaments quotes below are all either spoken by Nicole / Daisy / Jade or refer to Nicole / Daisy / Jade. 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 8
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I’d basically disliked Baby Nicole since I’d had to do a paper on her. I’d got a C because I’d said she was being used as a football by both sides, and it would be the greatest happiness of the greatest number just to give her back.
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Chapter 32
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“Gilead’s not shy about killing,” said Ada. “They’re fanatics.” She said they were supposed to be dedicated to virtuous godly living, but you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.
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Chapter 44
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Aunt Beatrice ordered in pizza for lunch, which we had with ice cream from the freezer. I said I was surprised that they were eating junk food: wasn’t Gilead against it, especially for women?
“It’s part of our tests as Pearl Girls,” said Aunt Dove. “We’re supposed to sample the fleshpot temptations of the outside world in order to understand them, and then reject them in our hearts.” She took another bite of pizza.
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Chapter 62
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As we went north, the friendliness decreased: there were angry looks, and I had the feeling that our Pearl Girls mission and even the whole Gilead thing was leaking popularity. No one spat at us, but they scowled as if they would like to.
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