Lesley is an acquaintance of Rent Boy’s who has a traumatic experience when her infant child Dawn dies while she and some friends are high on heroin. Although Matty declares that Dawn died of sudden infant death syndrome, Lesley still feels guilty, and the incident also weighs heavily on Sick Boy, who was mostly likely Dawn’s father. Lesley remains troubled for the rest of the novel, overdosing in an apparent suicide attempt and ending up on life support.
Lesley Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Lesley or refer to Lesley . 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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Ah never wanted anything mair in ma life than fir her tae stoap screamin.— The bairn’s away . . . the bairn’s away. . . Dawn. . . oh my god. . . oh fuckin god, wis aboot aw ah could pick ootay the horrible sound. She collapses oantae the threadbare couch.
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Lesley Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Lesley or refer to Lesley . 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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Ah never wanted anything mair in ma life than fir her tae stoap screamin.— The bairn’s away . . . the bairn’s away. . . Dawn. . . oh my god. . . oh fuckin god, wis aboot aw ah could pick ootay the horrible sound. She collapses oantae the threadbare couch.
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