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Hillari Kimble is the most popular girl at Mica High and also the nastiest. She especially hates Stargirl. Hillari dates Wayne Parr, and together they epitomize the “normal” high school couple. Hillari becomes enraged whenever her typical high school experience—including her status as leader—is threatened, and she expresses that rage by leading the student body in shunning Stargirl. When Stargirl “ruins” the Ocotillo Ball, Hillari slaps her, but Stargirl forgives her.
Hillari Kimble Quotes in Stargirl
The Stargirl quotes below are all either spoken by Hillari Kimble or refer to Hillari Kimble. 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 2 Quotes
Mica Area High School— MAHS— was not exactly a hotbed of nonconformity. There were individual variants here and there, of course, but within pretty narrow limits we all wore the same clothes, talked the same way, ate the same food, listened to the same music. Even our dorks and nerds had a MAHS stamp on them. If we happened to somehow distinguish ourselves, we quickly snapped back into place, like rubber bands.
Kevin was right. It was unthinkable that Stargirl could survive— or at least survive unchanged— among us. But it was also clear that Hillari Kimble was at least half right: this person calling herself Stargirl may or may not have been a faculty plant for school spirit, but whatever she was, she was not real.
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And each night in bed I thought of her as the moon came through my window. I could have lowered my shade to make it darker and easier to sleep, but I never did. In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn’t the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.
It was during one of these nightmoon times that it came to me that Hillari Kimble was wrong. Stargirl was real.
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Chapter 31 Quotes
Shortly after, as the Serenaders gratefully played “Stardust,” Hillari Kimble walked up to Stargirl and said, “You ruin everything.” And she slapped her.
The crowd grew instantly still. The two girls stood facing each other for a long minute. Those nearby saw in Hillari’s shoulders and eyes a flinching: she was waiting to be struck in reply. And in fact, when Stargirl finally moved, Hillari winced and shut her eyes. But it was lips that touched her, not the palm of a hand. Stargirl kissed her gently on the cheek. She was gone by the time Hillari opened her eyes.
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Hillari Kimble Character Timeline in Stargirl
The timeline below shows where the character Hillari Kimble appears in Stargirl. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
The next day at school, a girl named Hillari Kimble is sneering. Stargirl can’t be real, Hillari is telling everyone: she’s just a scam,...
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...Birthday” while strumming the ukulele. Alan looks embarrassed. As Stargirl leaves the cafeteria, Leo sees Hillari pointing at her and saying something he can’t hear.
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...“a sense of the otherness of things.” On one of these nights, Leo decides that Hillari Kimble is wrong: Stargirl is for real.
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Chapter 3
Meanwhile, rumors run wild about Stargirl. People move on from Hillari’s claim that Stargirl is fake. Instead, they imagine that she’s “homeschooling gone amok,” or an...
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Chapter 4
Hillari Kimble is famous for her big mouth, an infamous hoax, and her boyfriend, Wayne Parr....
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Chapter 5
...sparse crowd has grown to more than 1,000 people (everyone except for Wayne Parr and Hillari Kimble). Everyone waits expectantly until halftime. But Stargirl never shows up.
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...“unsafe” to draw too close. And everyone is waiting to see what will happen on Hillari Kimble’s birthday.
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Chapter 6
The day before Hillari’s birthday, Hillari approaches Stargirl at lunch. Everyone stops eating and stares as Hillari hovers behind...
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The next day, nobody can get to lunch fast enough. At first, both Hillari and Stargirl eat their lunches in silence, while the entire cafeteria watches, afraid to miss...
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After the song is finished, Hillari stomps out of the lunchroom while everyone else breaks into applause. Kevin asks Stargirl, “Why...
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Chapter 8
...the goalposts—delight the crowds despite the Electrons’ losses. It might also be a backlash against Hillari Kimble, who threatened to drop Cinnamon, Stargirl’s rat, down the stairs. Or it could be...
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Chapter 12
Leo’s foreboding gets stronger as the grim-faced jurors—including Hillari Kimble—enter the studio. Only Stargirl seems to be in a good mood. She even makes...
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Chapter 13
...ever having asked Stargirl onto the show. Stargirl, too, is starting to appear rattled. Finally, Hillari Kimble takes the microphone. She says that if Stargirl wants to cheer for other schools,...
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Chapter 24
...the sign and to tear it down in embarrassment. He suddenly understands why students like Hillari Kimble hated being the center of Stargirl’s attention: he feels “spotlighted on a bare stage.”
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Chapter 31
...Stargirl is leading a long line of dancers across the floor. Almost everybody, except for Hillari Kimble and Wayne Parr, joins in.
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...on the tennis courts wait for the dancers’ return, staring off toward the desert—everyone except Hillari Kimble, who demands “regular music” so she and Wayne can dance. Guy Greco doesn’t comply,...
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...tennis courts start dancing, too, and the two lines meet in a happy collision. But Hillari Kimble walks up to Stargirl, says “you ruin everything,” and slaps her.
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At this, the crowd grows quiet. Stargirl and Hillari stare at each other. Hillari cringes as if she’s expecting Stargirl to slap her in...
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