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Tony Macoli
Briony Nevis is an adolescent girl from Angelus in the same high school class as the narrator of “Big World.” The narrator has a crush on Briony, who reciprocates, leading to a kiss at a house party. But the narrator’s loyalty to Biggie prevents the relationship form developing into anything meaningful. One day much later, the narrator and Briony briefly reunite at a supermarket.
Briony Nevis Quotes in The Turning
The The Turning quotes below are all either spoken by Briony Nevis or refer to Briony Nevis. 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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Big World Quotes
Right then I can’t imagine and end to the quiet. The horizon fades. Everything looks impossibly far off. In two hours I’ll hear Biggie and Meg in his sleeping bag and she’ll cry out like a bird and become so beautiful, so desirable in the total dark that I’ll begin to cry. In a week Biggie and Meg will blow me off in Broome and I’ll be on the bus south for a second chance at the exams. In a year Biggie will be dead in a mining accident in the Pilbara and I’ll be reading Robert Louis Stevenson at his funeral while his relatives shuffle and mutter with contempt. Meg won’t show. I’ll grow up and have a family of my own and see Briony Nevis, tired and lined in a supermarket queue, and wonder what all the fuss was about. And one night I’ll turn on the TV to discover the fact that Tony Macoli, the little man with the nose that could sniff round corners, is Australia’s richest merchant banker. All of it is unimaginable.
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Briony Nevis Character Timeline in The Turning
The timeline below shows where the character Briony Nevis appears in The Turning. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Big World
...with girls. The narrator felt he had a genuine connection with one girl in particular, Briony Nevis , but ultimately nothing came of it: he chose to maintain his friendship with Biggie...
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...which Meg will not attend. The narrator will grow up, have a family, and see Briony Nevis at the store. One night, he will see on TV that Tony Macoli is Australia’s...
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