Mary Lou Finney is a girl in Sal’s class. She often says odd things like “omnipotent” or “beef brain.” This confuses Sal at first—but Mary Lou’s mannerisms start to make more sense when Sal visits the Finney house. Mary Lou says “omnipotent” as an alternative to saying God’s name in vain, and she refers to her three younger brothers as “beef-brained.” Phoebe and Sal hang out with Mary Lou most Saturdays—except for the Saturday that Mary Lou is out on a date with their classmate Alex. Mary Lou’s relationship with Alex goes through a rough patch when Mr. Birkway reads Mary Lou’s summer journal aloud. In it, Mary Lou wrote that Alex was a jerk—and though Mr. Birkway doesn’t share whose journal it is, Alex and the rest of the class know that Mary Lou was writing about Alex.
Mary Lou Finney Quotes in Walk Two Moons
The Walk Two Moons quotes below are all either spoken by Mary Lou Finney or refer to Mary Lou Finney. 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 25
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All through dinner, I kept thinking of Bybanks, and what it was like when we went to my grandparents’ house for dinner. There were always tons of people—relatives and neighbors—and lots of confusion. It was a friendly sort of confusion, and it was like that at the Finneys’ […] Maybe this is what my mother had wanted, I thought. A house full of children and confusion.
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Mary Lou Finney Quotes in Walk Two Moons
The Walk Two Moons quotes below are all either spoken by Mary Lou Finney or refer to Mary Lou Finney. 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 25
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All through dinner, I kept thinking of Bybanks, and what it was like when we went to my grandparents’ house for dinner. There were always tons of people—relatives and neighbors—and lots of confusion. It was a friendly sort of confusion, and it was like that at the Finneys’ […] Maybe this is what my mother had wanted, I thought. A house full of children and confusion.
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