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A girl whom Connor and Risa first meet at Sonia’s. She falls deeply in love with a boy during the time she spends in safe houses and at the warehouse, but she’s devastated when he dies in transit to the Graveyard. Emotionally distraught and disturbed after losing the boy she believes was her soulmate, Mai confides in Cleaver about her emotions and her anger and he recruits her to join the clappers. She’s involved in murdering the Goldens and is surprised by how easy killing is. She’s later one of the clappers who bombs the Happy Jack Harvest Camp, though she nervously refuses to be the first to clap and detonate.
Mai Quotes in Unwind
The Unwind quotes below are all either spoken by Mai or refer to Mai. 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 35
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He could join them just out of spite, but that’s not enough—not this time. There must be more. Yet, as he stands there, Lev realizes that there is more. It’s invisible, but it’s there, like the deadly charge lurking in a downed power line. Anger, but not just anger: a will to act on it as well.
“All right, I’m in.” Back at home Lev always felt part of something larger than himself. Until now, he hadn’t realized how much he missed that feeling.
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Chapter 57
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Lev was terrified of these people, and yet he felt a kinship with them. They understood the misery of being betrayed by life. They understood what it felt like to have less than nothing inside you. And when they told Lev how important he was in the scheme of things, Lev felt, for the first time in a long time, truly important.
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Chapter 65
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It is only when a clapper brings his hands together that the lie reveals itself, abandoning the clapper in that final instant so that he exits this world utterly alone, without so much as a lie to accompany him into oblivion.
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Mai Quotes in Unwind
The Unwind quotes below are all either spoken by Mai or refer to Mai. 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:
).
Chapter 35
Quotes
He could join them just out of spite, but that’s not enough—not this time. There must be more. Yet, as he stands there, Lev realizes that there is more. It’s invisible, but it’s there, like the deadly charge lurking in a downed power line. Anger, but not just anger: a will to act on it as well.
“All right, I’m in.” Back at home Lev always felt part of something larger than himself. Until now, he hadn’t realized how much he missed that feeling.
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Chapter 57
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Lev was terrified of these people, and yet he felt a kinship with them. They understood the misery of being betrayed by life. They understood what it felt like to have less than nothing inside you. And when they told Lev how important he was in the scheme of things, Lev felt, for the first time in a long time, truly important.
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Chapter 65
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It is only when a clapper brings his hands together that the lie reveals itself, abandoning the clapper in that final instant so that he exits this world utterly alone, without so much as a lie to accompany him into oblivion.
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