Jordan’s wife, who also works as his investigator. Like Jordan, Selena is smart, talented, and hard-working. However, while her husband sometimes lacks a degree of empathy and care, Selena brings a more human touch to their work together. she cites her experience as a black woman as a reason why she can understand how someone who has been bullied their whole life—like Peter—can come to feel trapped and powerless. She and Jordan are the parents of a baby, Sam.
Selena Quotes in Nineteen Minutes
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Part 2, Chapter 1: Five Months After
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Maybe it was our own damn fault that men turned out the way they did, Selena thought. Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.
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Selena Quotes in Nineteen Minutes
The Nineteen Minutes quotes below are all either spoken by Selena or refer to Selena. 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 2, Chapter 1: Five Months After
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Maybe it was our own damn fault that men turned out the way they did, Selena thought. Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.
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