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Dr. Cable
David’s mom and Az’s wife. As a young pretty, Maddy was a cosmetic surgeon and sat on the “Pretty Committee,” the group that decides what pretty looks like. Along with her husband, fellow surgeon Az, she began to look into the lesions that Az discovered on brain scans of pretties. Together, they discovered that the lesions change how people think and turn them into pliant and yielding individuals, though people who work in professions where they have to make quick decisions—such as doctors—don’t have the lesions. This, they realize, means that the lesions are curable. Special Circumstances threatens Maddy and Az before the doctors make much headway on a cure, so they run away and start the Smoke. Maddy is a sharp and businesslike woman, but she’s tender and gentle too. Special Circumstances ultimately kidnaps her along with Az and the rest of the Smokies when they raid the Smoke. When Tally and David reconnect with her in the city, Maddy focuses all her energy on helping the Smokies escape Special Circumstances so that doesn’t have to attend to her own grief or share the truth with David—that Az died from a medical experiment while imprisoned in Special Circumstances. Despite not having a fully stocked lab to work with, Maddy uses information on Dr. Cable’s tablet to develop a cure for the lesions. However, she refuses to give them to Shay (who becomes pretty) without Shay’s permission. A fundamentally ethical person, Maddy suggests that she already violated the Hippocratic oath once when she learned she was complicit in changing people’s brains without consent, and she refuses to do so again. During this conversation, Tally also senses that Maddy blames her for Az’s death.
Maddy Quotes in Uglies
The Uglies quotes below are all either spoken by Maddy or refer to Maddy. 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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Pretty Minds
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Tally remembered crossing the river to New Pretty Town, watching them have their endless fun. She and Peris used to boast they’d never wind up so idiotic, so shallow. But when she’d seen him... “Becoming pretty doesn’t just change the way you look,” she said.
“No,” David said. “It changes the way you think.”
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Burning Bridges
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For that matter, shallow and self-centered was how brand-new pretties were supposed to be. As an ugly, Peris had made fun of them—but he hadn’t waited a moment to join in the fun. No one ever did. So how could you tell how much was the operation and how much was just people going along with the way things had always been?
Only by making a whole new world, which is just what Maddy and Az had begun to do.
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Hippocratic Oath
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“Why did we even have to ask? They didn’t get her permission when they did this to her!”
“That’s the difference between us and them,” Maddy said. “After Az and I found out what the operation really meant, we realized we’d been party to something horrible. People had their minds changed without their knowledge. As doctors, we took an ancient oath never to do anything like that.”
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Maddy Quotes in Uglies
The Uglies quotes below are all either spoken by Maddy or refer to Maddy. 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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Pretty Minds
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Tally remembered crossing the river to New Pretty Town, watching them have their endless fun. She and Peris used to boast they’d never wind up so idiotic, so shallow. But when she’d seen him... “Becoming pretty doesn’t just change the way you look,” she said.
“No,” David said. “It changes the way you think.”
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Burning Bridges
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For that matter, shallow and self-centered was how brand-new pretties were supposed to be. As an ugly, Peris had made fun of them—but he hadn’t waited a moment to join in the fun. No one ever did. So how could you tell how much was the operation and how much was just people going along with the way things had always been?
Only by making a whole new world, which is just what Maddy and Az had begun to do.
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Hippocratic Oath
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“Why did we even have to ask? They didn’t get her permission when they did this to her!”
“That’s the difference between us and them,” Maddy said. “After Az and I found out what the operation really meant, we realized we’d been party to something horrible. People had their minds changed without their knowledge. As doctors, we took an ancient oath never to do anything like that.”
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