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Dr. Kirkbride
Weed is a young boy who lives at the asylum and is about six or seven years old. Mrs. Hexum acts as an adoptive mother to Weed until Weed leaves the asylum to live with ConaLee and Dearbhla in the Allegheny Mountains. At the end of the novel, ConaLee buys a house for her and Weed to share and refers to Weed as her brother, a detail that highlights the importance of chosen family in both Weed and ConaLee’s lives.
Weed Quotes in Night Watch
The Night Watch quotes below are all either spoken by Weed or refer to Weed. 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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Part 3: A Private Transaction – A Fracas Quotes
Old Dr. O’Shea made me his son, near, in offering me his name. Hospital needed a name and I didn’t know mine. I was studied because I lived. They saw to my eye patch, gave me a hospital job. Moving patients, wharf to ambulance to hospital, once I was strong. My doctor watched over me near three year. Wrote me a reference when the War was over and I was civilized, back to strength, there to here. A secret for you, Weed.
Weed tilts his head, listening.
You can choose your own name when you want one.
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Epilogue Quotes
ConaLee surveyed the house once more. It would be hers. Who lived there, came to stay—would be up to her. ConaLee, there is no forever. We are on our walk and the day is fine. Not so many families owned a house. Some owned more, this and that, houses, stores, railroads, vast lands. Others…died, or fled, or forgot who they were. Endurance was strength. The courage of the lost swelled and moved, a force separating the days, clearing the way.
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Weed Quotes in Night Watch
The Night Watch quotes below are all either spoken by Weed or refer to Weed. 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:
).
Part 3: A Private Transaction – A Fracas Quotes
Old Dr. O’Shea made me his son, near, in offering me his name. Hospital needed a name and I didn’t know mine. I was studied because I lived. They saw to my eye patch, gave me a hospital job. Moving patients, wharf to ambulance to hospital, once I was strong. My doctor watched over me near three year. Wrote me a reference when the War was over and I was civilized, back to strength, there to here. A secret for you, Weed.
Weed tilts his head, listening.
You can choose your own name when you want one.
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Epilogue Quotes
ConaLee surveyed the house once more. It would be hers. Who lived there, came to stay—would be up to her. ConaLee, there is no forever. We are on our walk and the day is fine. Not so many families owned a house. Some owned more, this and that, houses, stores, railroads, vast lands. Others…died, or fled, or forgot who they were. Endurance was strength. The courage of the lost swelled and moved, a force separating the days, clearing the way.
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