The narrator’s five-year-old sister is mostly unaware of the supernatural events going on around her, and she doesn’t identify anything that happens as nefarious. She and the narrator fight constantly, especially once the narrator moves into her bedroom after it’s rented out to the opal miner. The narrator’s sister also adores Ursula and is thus clearly under Ursula’s spell. The narrator’s sister doesn’t interest him much; her attendance at his disastrous seventh birthday party “doesn’t count,” and there appears to be little or no sibling camaraderie between them. Part of this has to do with the fact that as the narrator sees it, his sister leads a charmed life and never has anything bad happen to her.
The Narrator’s Sister Quotes in The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The The Ocean at the End of the Lane quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator’s Sister or refer to The Narrator’s Sister. 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 7
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I watched as my father’s free hand, the one not holding my sister, went down and rested, casually, proprietarily, on the swell of Ursula Monkton’s midi skirted bottom.
I would react differently to that now. At the time, I do not believe I thought anything of it at all. I was seven.
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The Narrator’s Sister Quotes in The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The The Ocean at the End of the Lane quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator’s Sister or refer to The Narrator’s Sister. 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 7
Quotes
I watched as my father’s free hand, the one not holding my sister, went down and rested, casually, proprietarily, on the swell of Ursula Monkton’s midi skirted bottom.
I would react differently to that now. At the time, I do not believe I thought anything of it at all. I was seven.
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