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May Belle Aarons
The music teacher at Lark Creek Elementary. Jess is “in love” with the beautiful, smart, talented, and empathetic Miss Edmunds, a self-described “liberated woman” who wears blue jeans and keeps her hair long and wild. Miss Edmunds is the only person—other than Leslie—to compliment Jess’s artistic talent and support him in his drawing, often encouraging him to bring her each new piece of art he makes. She even takes Jess to Washington, D.C. one afternoon to visit the National Gallery—it is Jess’s first trip to an art museum, and he decides to keep the experience to himself rather than invite Leslie along. The trip ends up being a fateful one, as Leslie, left behind in Lark Creek for the day, visits Terabithia alone—and falls to her death on the way over the creek. Miss Edmunds is kind, generous, and emotional, and helps nurture the parts of Jess that even his own family tries to ignore or suppress.
Miss Edmunds Quotes in Bridge to Terabithia
The Bridge to Terabithia quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Edmunds or refer to Miss Edmunds. 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 10
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Entering the gallery was like stepping inside the pine grove [in Terabithia]—the huge vaulted marble, the cool splash of the fountain, and the green growing all around. Two little children had pulled away from their mothers and were running about, screaming to each other. It was all Jess could do not to grab them and tell them how to behave in so obviously a sacred place.
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Miss Edmunds Quotes in Bridge to Terabithia
The Bridge to Terabithia quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Edmunds or refer to Miss Edmunds. 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 10
Quotes
Entering the gallery was like stepping inside the pine grove [in Terabithia]—the huge vaulted marble, the cool splash of the fountain, and the green growing all around. Two little children had pulled away from their mothers and were running about, screaming to each other. It was all Jess could do not to grab them and tell them how to behave in so obviously a sacred place.
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