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Harry Vincent
Kerry is Magda’s best friend and secret crush in middle school. The girls kiss each other as practice for kissing boys. When Kerry wants to make Magda over like a “Sharpie”—members of the cool, rebellious crowd at their school—Magda complies, wanting to please Kerry. After Magda and Kerry get in a car crash, they drift apart.
Kerry Quotes in Reckoning
The Reckoning quotes below are all either spoken by Kerry or refer to Kerry. 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 13: Sharpies
Quotes
I both wanted and didn’t want Kerry to know how I felt about her. I wanted to kiss her […] but I was afraid she would think I was the most reviled and despised thing: a lezzo. My tender feelings were like a jammed signal, unable to escape my furiously beating heart. I was paralyzed, like a hysterical mute, wanting to tell her but desperate to hide my true nature. So it was that the moment of my gay adolescence was delayed at take-off and has, I fear, been stuck on the runway ever since.
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Kerry Quotes in Reckoning
The Reckoning quotes below are all either spoken by Kerry or refer to Kerry. 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 13: Sharpies
Quotes
I both wanted and didn’t want Kerry to know how I felt about her. I wanted to kiss her […] but I was afraid she would think I was the most reviled and despised thing: a lezzo. My tender feelings were like a jammed signal, unable to escape my furiously beating heart. I was paralyzed, like a hysterical mute, wanting to tell her but desperate to hide my true nature. So it was that the moment of my gay adolescence was delayed at take-off and has, I fear, been stuck on the runway ever since.
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