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Miriam is Sonia’s cousin and Nelson’s younger sister. Miriam is timid, shy, and disinterested in stepping even a toe out of line as a child, which makes Nelson Sonia’s partner in crime. Miriam also manages to always keep her dresses neat and her curls in ribbons, which Sonia cannot do. As they get older, though, Miriam and Sonia grow closer and even sign up to be maritime cadets together—though mostly so they can keep an eye on Nelson. Miriam earns a degree in bilingual education.
Miriam Quotes in My Beloved World
The My Beloved World quotes below are all either spoken by Miriam or refer to Miriam. 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 14
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There it was: glowing white with toggle buttons and subtle flair of fake fur trim up the front and around the hood. As improbably white as a white couch, white as a blanket of snow on a college lawn.
“You like it, Sonia?”
“I love it, Mami.” This was another first. Unlike my mother, or Chiqui, or my cousin Miriam, or so many of my friends, I’d never cared enough to fall in love with a garment. But wrapped in this, I knew I wouldn’t feel so odd.
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Chapter 17
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It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted. What if my father hadn’t died, if I hadn’t spent that sad summer reading, if my mother’s English had been no better than my aunts’? Would I have made it to Princeton?
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Miriam Quotes in My Beloved World
The My Beloved World quotes below are all either spoken by Miriam or refer to Miriam. 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 14
Quotes
There it was: glowing white with toggle buttons and subtle flair of fake fur trim up the front and around the hood. As improbably white as a white couch, white as a blanket of snow on a college lawn.
“You like it, Sonia?”
“I love it, Mami.” This was another first. Unlike my mother, or Chiqui, or my cousin Miriam, or so many of my friends, I’d never cared enough to fall in love with a garment. But wrapped in this, I knew I wouldn’t feel so odd.
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Chapter 17
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It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted. What if my father hadn’t died, if I hadn’t spent that sad summer reading, if my mother’s English had been no better than my aunts’? Would I have made it to Princeton?
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