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Olivia is Rufus’s older sister. After receiving a call from Death-Cast, she drowned in the Hudson River with her parents a few months before the novel begins. She and Rufus were very close; they’d planned to go to college together in California. Olivia even put off going to school for a year so they could go at the same time.
Olivia Quotes in They Both Die at the End
The They Both Die at the End quotes below are all either spoken by Olivia or refer to Olivia. 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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Mateo, 7:22 a.m. Quotes
I believe him. He’s not monstrous. Monsters don’t come to your home to help you live; they trap you in your bed and eat you alive. “People make mistakes,” I say.
“And my friends are the ones being punished,” Rufus says. “Their last memory of me will be running out the back door from my own funeral because the cops were coming for me. I left them behind... I’ve spent the last four months feeling abandoned by my family dying, and in a split second I did the same damn thing to my new family.”
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As Rufus explains what happened at his funeral, Mateo makes the important distinction that Rufus isn’t a monster—he just made a mistake. Per the novel, monsters are people more like Peck, who later tries to kill Rufus, or Vin Pearce, who later blows up a gym in a suicide bombing. These individuals make a point to hurt purposefully hurt others out of spite and resentment. However, it’s also possible to argue that even Peck and Vin are more like Rufus than Mateo might acknowledge—all of these people have made choices, good and bad, that brought them to where they are. Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eli
Rufus, 7:53 a.m. Quotes
I don’t know if he’s playing it off like he doesn’t know this from my Last Friend profile or if he’s impacted by this piece of history between me and my sister or if he overlooked this on my profile and is some ass who cares about who other people kiss. I hope not. We’re friends now, hands down, and it’s not forced. I met this kid a few years ago because some creative designer somewhere developed an app to forge connections. I’d hate to disconnect.
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Rufus mentions that his sister, Olivia, was the first person he came out to, and Mateo responds nonchalantly. This leads Rufus to wonder about why Mateo responds this way. Though Rufus’s questions are valid—he doesn’t want to spend his final day hanging out with someone who doesn’t accept him for who he is, no matter who Rufus loves—it’s important to note that Rufus settles on the fact that he and Mateo are friends. Their friendship, Rufus decides, is important and strong enough that it doesn’t really matter what Mateo’s thoughts on Rufus’s sexuality are. Whatever they are, they’re not going Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Vel
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Olivia Character Timeline in They Both Die at the End
The timeline below shows where the character Olivia appears in They Both Die at the End. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Rufus Emeterio, 1:05 a.m.
When the call is over, Rufus prays that he doesn’t drown like his parents and Olivia. He walks back to Peck, slams him against the wall, and informs Peck that he...
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Rufus, 1:18 a.m.
...church where he and Aimee first hung out. She’d played classical music for him, like Olivia used to play. Rufus wants to take a picture of the stained glass windows, but...
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Rufus, 7:53 a.m.
...that his mom woke up to the Death-Cast alert on May 10, while Rufus and Olivia were playing cards. Then, the herald asked to speak to Rufus’s dad—and then to Olivia....
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Mateo tells Rufus he doesn’t have to continue, but Rufus continues the story. Olivia wanted to go to the family’s cabin in Albany. Rufus rode shotgun, figuring that increased...
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Mateo, 8:32 a.m.
Rufus stops in front of a sporting goods store and shares that he and Olivia loved to ski. They always went back to the same slope, even though everyone in...
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Rufus, 12:35 p.m.
...mad, but happy. He admits, for the first time, that he left his parents and Olivia. He doesn’t know if it was a reflex, but it would’ve been easy to sink...
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Rufus, 1:46 p.m.
...desperately wants to see the Plutos, but he’ll settle for a bike ride—he rode after Olivia and his parents died, and when Aimee broke up with him. Mateo and Rufus argue...
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Mateo, 2:34 p.m.
...train, Rufus suggests they play a game called Traveler that he used to play with Olivia: they’ll make up stories about other passengers. Rufus points to a woman in scrubs and...
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