Georgie Parks is a widely-respected free black man who lives near Lockless in Freetown. Formerly enslaved, he bought his freedom and married a woman named Amber, with whom he has one baby son. Hiram and Georgie are friends, and Hiram believes Georgie is connected to the “Underground” before he really knows what this is. However, Georgie is secretly working for Ryland’s Hounds and ruthlessly betrays Hiram and Sophia, leading to their capture.
Georgie Parks Quotes in The Water Dancer
The The Water Dancer quotes below are all either spoken by Georgie Parks or refer to Georgie Parks. 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 14
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The Task was a trap. Even Georgie was trapped. And so who was Corrine Quinn to judge such a man? Who was I, who’d run with no higher purpose save my own passions and my own skin? Now I understood the Underground war. It was not the ancient and honorable kind.
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Georgie Parks Quotes in The Water Dancer
The The Water Dancer quotes below are all either spoken by Georgie Parks or refer to Georgie Parks. 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:
).
Chapter 14
Quotes
The Task was a trap. Even Georgie was trapped. And so who was Corrine Quinn to judge such a man? Who was I, who’d run with no higher purpose save my own passions and my own skin? Now I understood the Underground war. It was not the ancient and honorable kind.
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