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Andrea Donahue
Aimee is one of the Plutos (a group of friends who are also foster siblings) along with Rufus, Malcolm, and Tagoe. She was also Rufus’s girlfriend until a few weeks before the novel begins. Aimee’s parents were put in prison for violently robbing a convenience store—and though this lands her in foster care at first, she lives with her aunt when the novel begins. She broke up with Rufus when she moved out of the foster home so that she could have a “fresh start.” Aimee finds herself in a morally complex situation when she discovers not only that Rufus is dying, but that he beat up her current boyfriend, Peck, around the time he received the call from Death-Cast. She’s even angrier, however, when Peck calls the police on Rufus and ruins Rufus’s funeral (in the novel, a person’s funeral typically occurs before he or she dies). Though Aimee knows she has a choice to make—and to many, including Rufus and Peck, the choice is simple—she delays choosing between Peck and Rufus for as long as possible. She insists that she wants to spend more time with Rufus and is openly disgusted with Peck, but she leaves open the possibility that she might continue dating Peck after Rufus is dead. This only changes after Aimee and Rufus make up, when Peck pulls a gun on Rufus at Clint’s Graveyard. Aimee chooses to take Rufus’s side. Though the reader never gets a look at her individual perspective after Rufus leaves Clint’s Graveyard, the narrator suggests that all of the Plutos will struggle to put themselves back together again and will be forever marked by Rufus’s death.
Aimee Dubois Quotes in They Both Die at the End
The They Both Die at the End quotes below are all either spoken by Aimee Dubois or refer to Aimee Dubois. 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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Rufus, 1:18 a.m.
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I don’t wanna think about any of that, I just wanna get to Aimee and say goodbye to the Plutos as the friend they know I am, not the monster I was tonight.
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Mateo, 7:22 a.m.
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I believe him. He’s not monstrous. Monsters don’t come to your home to help you live; they trap you in your bed and eat you alive. “People make mistakes,” I say.
“And my friends are the ones being punished,” Rufus says. “Their last memory of me will be running out the back door from my own funeral because the cops were coming for me. I left them behind... I’ve spent the last four months feeling abandoned by my family dying, and in a split second I did the same damn thing to my new family.”
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The Plutos, 6:33 p.m.
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You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.
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Aimee Dubois Quotes in They Both Die at the End
The They Both Die at the End quotes below are all either spoken by Aimee Dubois or refer to Aimee Dubois. 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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Rufus, 1:18 a.m.
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I don’t wanna think about any of that, I just wanna get to Aimee and say goodbye to the Plutos as the friend they know I am, not the monster I was tonight.
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Mateo, 7:22 a.m.
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I believe him. He’s not monstrous. Monsters don’t come to your home to help you live; they trap you in your bed and eat you alive. “People make mistakes,” I say.
“And my friends are the ones being punished,” Rufus says. “Their last memory of me will be running out the back door from my own funeral because the cops were coming for me. I left them behind... I’ve spent the last four months feeling abandoned by my family dying, and in a split second I did the same damn thing to my new family.”
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The Plutos, 6:33 p.m.
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You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.
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