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Nora Spier
Mom is Simon, Nora, and Alice's mom. Simon takes major offense to the fact that Mom is extremely observant about any changes her children make, and gets overexcited about those changes. Mom, more so than Dad, is extremely strict about following Georgia's teen driving laws. After Mom speaks to Abby when Simon comes home drunk, Abby tells Simon that Mom is terrifying. Despite her ability to terrify teens, Simon also describes her as being a "cool mom" who desperately wants to know about her children's lives at school. Mom does her best to be supportive of Simon after he comes out, and Simon suspects that Mom spoke to Dad about no longer making homophobic jokes or comments.
Mom Quotes in Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
The Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda quotes below are all either spoken by Mom or refer to Mom. 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 3
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Leah once said that she'd rather have people call her fat directly than have to sit there and listen to them talking shit about some other girl's weight. I actually think I agree with that. Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.
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Chapter 5
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I need to spend some time in my head with this new Simon. My parents have a way of ruining things like this. They get so curious. It's like they have this idea of me, and whenever I step outside of that, it blows their minds. There's something so embarrassing about that in a way I can't even describe.
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But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.
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Chapter 19
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It's Christmas Eve day, and something feels a little bit off.
Not bad, just off. I don't know how to explain it. We're hitting everyone of the Spier traditions.
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In this moment, all I want is for things to feel like Christmas again. I want it to feel how it used to feel.
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Chapter 30
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“I owe you an apology, kid.”
I look up at him.
“What you said on Friday. About the gay jokes.”
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Mom Quotes in Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
The Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda quotes below are all either spoken by Mom or refer to Mom. 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 3
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Leah once said that she'd rather have people call her fat directly than have to sit there and listen to them talking shit about some other girl's weight. I actually think I agree with that. Nothing is worse than the secret humiliation of being insulted by proxy.
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Chapter 5
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I need to spend some time in my head with this new Simon. My parents have a way of ruining things like this. They get so curious. It's like they have this idea of me, and whenever I step outside of that, it blows their minds. There's something so embarrassing about that in a way I can't even describe.
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But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.
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Chapter 19
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It's Christmas Eve day, and something feels a little bit off.
Not bad, just off. I don't know how to explain it. We're hitting everyone of the Spier traditions.
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In this moment, all I want is for things to feel like Christmas again. I want it to feel how it used to feel.
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Chapter 30
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“I owe you an apology, kid.”
I look up at him.
“What you said on Friday. About the gay jokes.”
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