Stevie is a friend of Rent Boy’s who doesn’t use heroin. After confessing his feelings to a woman named Stella, he waits nervously for her to get back to him with an answer on New Year’s Eve. When she calls to say she loves him, he goes to meet her at the train station. Stevie lives in London, and the mostly happy ending of his story suggests that perhaps his move away from Leith helped him escape the fate of the other characters.
Stevie Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Stevie or refer to Stevie . 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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The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards. Stevie wondered whether she’d be on it. Paranoia hit him. Waves of fear shuddered through his body. The stakes were high, the highest ever. He couldn’t see her, couldn’t even picture her in his mind’s eye. Then she was almost upon him, different to how he thought of her, more real, even more beautiful. It was the smile, the look of emotion reciprocated. He ran the short distance to her and held her in his arms. They kissed for a long time. When they stopped, the platform was deserted and the train was well on its way to Dundee.
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Stevie Character Timeline in Trainspotting
The timeline below shows where the character Stevie appears in Trainspotting. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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Victory on New Year’s Day. On New Year’s Eve, Begbie greets Stevie with a hug. But Stevie is preoccupied about how Stella back in London hasn’t called...
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Stevie sees Rent Boy and Sick Boy at the party, and Sick Boy complains about how...
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Rent Boy reminds Stevie that he’ll be staying with him for a while in February. Stevie hoped Rent Boy...
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Stevie thinks about his last conversation with Stella—he confessed his feelings to her at a pub,...
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Stevie gets pulled back into the main room of the party, where people are singing. Stevie...
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Stella reminds Stevie that she was just at her sister’s, which is why she didn’t call earlier. She...
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When Stevie gets back to the party, he puts the Proclaimers’ Sunshine on Leith onto the turntable....
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Later that evening, Stevie heads to the train station to go meet Stella. Along the way, a bunch of...
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