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Rufus’s mom and dad and his older sister, Olivia, received their Death-Cast calls a few months before the novel begins. The entire family was in a car accident—their car went through a guardrail and into the Hudson River, where Rufus’s parents and Olivia drowned. Rufus notes bitterly that his parents didn’t try to fight once the car was in the water; he resents them somewhat for this.
Rufus’s Parents Quotes in They Both Die at the End
The They Both Die at the End quotes below are all either spoken by Rufus’s Parents or refer to Rufus’s Parents. 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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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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Rufus’s Parents Quotes in They Both Die at the End
The They Both Die at the End quotes below are all either spoken by Rufus’s Parents or refer to Rufus’s Parents. 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:
).
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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