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Lorna is Wendell’s half-White daughter from Wendell’s partner after Mavis. Just a year younger than Princess, she and Princess quickly hit it off when she arrives at Mavis’s home. When Lorna starts going to school with Princess, however, all the girls start complimenting her more, implicitly because of her lighter skin. This development harms Princess’s self-esteem, but in the end the girls are reconciled, and Lorna is welcomed as a true member of the reunited James family.
Lorna Quotes in Princess & The Hustler
The Princess & The Hustler quotes below are all either spoken by Lorna or refer to Lorna. 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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Act 1, Scene 4 Quotes
Cos that’s the thing with secrets sometimes they show anyway.
No need to keep them.
Secret.
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Act 1, Scene 5 Quotes
It takes more than a word to make a father.
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Act 1, Scene 6 Quotes
If you stay here forever I will be happier than the sky Lorna.
But I understand if you have to go away. I missed my daddy even though I couldn’t remember him. If you miss your mummy too much, then I will understand. But I will be sad...
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Mi know mi do wrong in de past. Yuh ‘ave ebbry right to be angry.
Mi spirit troubled since de day mi leff yuh an’ yuh modder but everyone deserve ar second chance. Yuh nuh say so?
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Act 3, Scene 5 Quotes
Us... girls and women with our skindark as the night, every shade of brown, glowing like fresh-made caramel, or legs spindly like a spider, we are everything that is beautiful on this earth.
And you... you the prettiest of them all because you are my girl.
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Lorna Character Timeline in Princess & The Hustler
The timeline below shows where the character Lorna appears in Princess & The Hustler. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 1, Scene 3
...it, Wendell is standing there with a 9-year-old girl whom he introduces as his daughter, Lorna.
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Act 1, Scene 4
Suddenly, the door opens, and Lorna is thrust into the room. They offer her a seat and introduce themselves. Princess then...
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Act 1, Scene 5
...new guests. Mavis declares the chicken is done cooking and beckons everyone to the table. Lorna starts to eat right away, but Mavis and Wendell hastily interrupt her, as Mavis says...
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...of this, stews bitterly and keeps asking when Wendell will leave. Mavis has Princess take Lorna into the other room and show Lorna her collection of beauty pageant photos, which she...
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...takes this as an invitation to stay over, however, Mavis angrily tells him that only Lorna can stay over and that she doesn’t care that he has nowhere to go. When...
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...is her old husband. The girls rush in and excitedly greet Margot, and Princess introduces Lorna as her sister, shocking Mavis. Princess begs Margot to take them to her room and...
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Act 1, Scene 6
Three days later, Princess and Lorna are sitting on crates down at the docks, complaining about their father’s unfulfilled promises to...
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Princess now batters Lorna with questions about her home life. She also tells her about the fantastic things she’s...
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Act 1, Scene 7
...army and left to fend for himself like a dog. He tells how he met Lorna’s mother when she took him in when he was homeless. He says that she’s a...
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...angry that Wendell is telling him all this. Mavis returns, Junior leaves, and Princess and Lorna run out, with Princess rambling about how great it is to have a sister. Wendell...
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Act 2, Scene 1
It’s now May of 1963. Mavis is sewing at the table when Princess and Lorna return from school. Princess is sobbing and throws herself on the couch, not answering Mavis’s...
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Wendell tries to comfort Princess, but Lorna explains why she’s crying: a girl invited Lorna but not Princess to her lavish birthday...
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Act 2, Scene 3
In the living room later that month, Mavis plaits Princess’s hair while Lorna plays with a doll and Wendell reads from the papers. He reads aloud an article...
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Lorna asks to go over to Margot’s so she can thank her for the doll she...
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Act 2, Scene 5
...with 20 British pounds in it and tells him to take it and leave, with Lorna. He bitterly recalls the pain Wendell’s first departure put Mavis through. Wendell can’t believe Junior...
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Act 3, Scene 1
...She’s found Princess’s hair cut off in her trash can. Mavis gets Leon to watch Lorna while they go out looking for Princess. Junior reveals how he paid Wendell off to...
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Act 3, Scene 2
...Princess cries that the other girls at school don’t think she’s pretty and only like Lorna now, so she no longer wants to go to the beauty pageant. She begs Margot...
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Act 3, Scene 3
...Princess as a beauty queen. Mavis says that Wendell is gone, and Princess asks if Lorna is going to have to leave too, but Mavis says no, she’ll stay here with...
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