Ryan Topps is Clara Bowden’s former boyfriend, an awkward, lanky, red-headed boy who also attends her high school. Clara and Ryan date briefly, but Hortense, Clara’s mother, manages to convert Ryan to the Jehovah’s Witnesses; he becomes a devout worshipper and attempts to “save” Clara after she leaves the religion. Later in the novel, he is revealed to have moved in with Hortense, serving as a kind of live-in aide to her.
Ryan Topps Quotes in White Teeth
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Chapter 2
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Yet a residue, left over from the evaporation of Clara’s faith, remained. She still wished for a savior. She still wished for a man to whisk her away, to choose her above others so that she might walk in white with Him: for [she] was worthy. Revelation 3:4.
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Ryan Topps Quotes in White Teeth
The White Teeth quotes below are all either spoken by Ryan Topps or refer to Ryan Topps. 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 2
Quotes
Yet a residue, left over from the evaporation of Clara’s faith, remained. She still wished for a savior. She still wished for a man to whisk her away, to choose her above others so that she might walk in white with Him: for [she] was worthy. Revelation 3:4.
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