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title: "84 Mother Says Quotes by 79 authors"
description: "Browse 84 Mother Says quotes by 79 authors. Discover the best Mother Says sayings and thoughts."
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> [My mother says ladies perspire and men sweat. Clearly, I am more of a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-hopkins/my-mother-says-ladies-perspire-and-men-sweat-clearly-i-am-more-of-a/)

[Katie Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-hopkins/)

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> [My mother says I have boring percussion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephin-merritt/my-mother-says-i-have-boring-percussion/)

[Stephin Merritt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephin-merritt/)

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> [My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dree-hemingway/my-mother-says-i-used-to-breast-feed-in-a-split/)

[Dree Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dree-hemingway/)

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> [I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-stone/i-m-relentless-my-mother-says-i-could-sell-ice-to-the-eskimos/)

[Sharon Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-stone/)

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> [“My mother always says, buy the outfit and the event will come.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sk-quinn/my-mother-always-says-buy-the-outfit-and-the-event-will-come/)

[SK Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sk-quinn/)

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> [My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/my-mother-says-looking-is-the-nature-of-wisdom/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [My mother says healers are born, not made.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-collins/my-mother-says-healers-are-born-not-made/)

[Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-collins/)

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> [“My mother says that smart women are always crazy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annalee-newitz/my-mother-says-that-smart-women-are-always-crazy/)

[Annalee Newitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annalee-newitz/)

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> [“My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-mueller-coombs/my-mother-says-we-re-supposed-to-make-mistakes-that-s-the-way-we/)

Karen Mueller Coombs

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> [Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/other-people-sound-flat-to-my-ear-their-words-just-hang-in-the-air/)

[Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/)

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> [“Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-hodgson-burnett/mother-says-as-th-two-worst-things-as-can-happen-to-a-child-is-never/)

[Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-hodgson-burnett/)

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> [“Every man wants to change the world,' Mother says, 'How come so few of them do?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brando-skyhorse-author/every-man-wants-to-change-the-world-mother-says-how-come-so-few-of/)

[Brando Skyhorse (Author](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brando-skyhorse-author/)

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> [My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-taylor/my-mother-says-i-didn-t-open-my-eyes-for-eight-days-after-i-was-born/)

[Elizabeth Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-taylor/)

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> [As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-ford/as-my-mother-says-you-give-back-you-don-t-give-up-you-can-always/)

[Susan Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-ford/)

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> [My mother says my first television experience was hiding behind the sofa watching John Pertwee's 'Doctor Who.' I loved that show.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hewlett/my-mother-says-my-first-television-experience-was-hiding-behind-the/)

[David Hewlett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hewlett/)

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> [It is not that I trust you because what your mother says but what your neighbour says.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikrant-parsai/it-is-not-that-i-trust-you-because-what-your-mother-says-but-what/)

[Vikrant Parsai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vikrant-parsai/)

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> [“Show me a mother who says she is 100 percent gentle, 100 percent of the time, and I'll show you a mother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-flower/show-me-a-mother-who-says-she-is-100-percent-gentle-100-percent-of/)

[Hilary Flower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-flower/)

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> [My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-heigl/my-mother-often-says-that-she-could-never-have-done-it-if-i-had-been/)

[Katherine Heigl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-heigl/)

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> [“We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/we-were-never-very-demonstrative-in-our-family-poor-folk-who-toil-and-2/)

[Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/)

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> [My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-setterfield/my-mother-says-that-after-i-first-visited-the-home-of-the-man-i-later/)

[Diane Setterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-setterfield/)

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> [“They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it’s because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mitchell/they-are-kind-of-queer-about-music-and-books-and-scenery-mother-says/)

[Margaret Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mitchell/)

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> [“Grace put her purse on the floor. “My mother says you must never do that,” Ruby chastised. “Mine too,” I agreed. “Do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-see/grace-put-her-purse-on-the-floor-my-mother-says-you-must-never-do/)

[Lisa See](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-see/)

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> [“Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/mother-says-she-can-never-stay-mad-at-daddy-no-matter-how-hard-she/)

[Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/)

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> [That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sanam-saeed/that-s-my-achievement-actually-when-a-mother-says-that-she-didn-t/)

[Sanam Saeed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sanam-saeed/)

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> [“A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend." His Mother says: "Why did you fight with your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/veronica-roth/a-son-says-to-his-mother-mother-today-i-fought-with-my-friend-his/)

[Veronica Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/veronica-roth/)

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> [“When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adriana-trigiani/when-i-observe-gram-i-see-how-fragile-the-notion-of-tradition-can-be/)

[Adriana Trigiani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adriana-trigiani/)

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> [“Calling all mothers! Some advice for you. If you have a little girl, don't be the kind of mother who says: "All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orna-ross/calling-all-mothers-some-advice-for-you-if-you-have-a-little-girl-don/)

[Orna Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orna-ross/)

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> [My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-moriarty/my-mother-says-that-when-mrs-rowley-is-mean-which-is-generally-the/)

[Laura Moriarty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-moriarty/)

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> [“Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask. “We thought he might,” my mother says. “Why didn’t you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ally-condie/did-you-know-grandfather-would-give-the-poems-to-me-i-ask-we-thought/)

[Ally Condie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ally-condie/)

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> [“He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don’t care who you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/he-plants-himself-right-there-in-front-of-craig-s-mother-and-says-you/)

[David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/)

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> [“THERE IT IS,’ my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we’ve been nearing for weeks, the one that’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-ness/there-it-is-my-mother-says-and-what-she-means-is-that-the-dot-we-ve/)

[Patrick Ness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-ness/)

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> [“You were so talented,” her mother says, smiling. “It is such a pity you didn’t pursue that. Don’t marry someone because you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-green/you-were-so-talented-her-mother-says-smiling-it-is-such-a-pity-you/)

[Jane Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-green/)

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> [“I thought I could wait to tell you until everything was figured out,” she says. “I didn’t think you’d have any contact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-a-cole/i-thought-i-could-wait-to-tell-you-until-everything-was-figured-out/)

[Olivia A. Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-a-cole/)

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> [“We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-maria-remarque/we-were-never-very-demonstrative-in-our-family-poor-folk-who-toil-and/)

[Erich Maria Remarque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-maria-remarque/)

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> [“As she looks through the photos, she says quietly, “We had a lot of happy times together. I hope you remember some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-porpora/as-she-looks-through-the-photos-she-says-quietly-we-had-a-lot-of/)

[Kenny Porpora](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-porpora/)

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> [“My mom says, "Do you know what the AIDS memorial quilt is all about?" Jump to how much I hate my brother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/my-mom-says-do-you-know-what-the-aids-memorial-quilt-is-all-about/)

[Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/)

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> [“Are they happy at all, ever?" "No", my mother says. "I don't know if they'll survive this." "That's terrible," I say. "It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jami-attenberg/are-they-happy-at-all-ever-no-my-mother-says-i-don-t-know-if-they-ll/)

[Jami Attenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jami-attenberg/)

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> [“‎"There is an easy standoff between the two kinds of mother which sometimes makes it hard for us to talk to each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-pearson/there-is-an-easy-standoff-between-the-two-kinds-of-mother-which/)

[Allison Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allison-pearson/)

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> [“Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight." "That's great." I picked up my bathrobe. "I was afraid I was going to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dashiell-hammett/dorothy-s-coming-up-i-think-she-s-tight-that-s-great-i-picked-up-my/)

[Dashiell Hammett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dashiell-hammett/)

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> [“That's too bad, Anneliese, the house is really spectacular. Anneke is a true talent." "It will be a new standard-bearer for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacey-ballis/that-s-too-bad-anneliese-the-house-is-really-spectacular-anneke-is-a/)

[Stacey Ballis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacey-ballis/)

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                        "text": "“We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. It is not their way to protest what they already know. When my mother says to me “dear boy,” it means much more than when another uses it. I know well enough that the jar of whortleberries is the only one they have had for months, and that she has kept it for me; and the somewhat stale cakes that she gives me too. She must have got them cheap some time and put them all by for me. I sit by her bed, and through the window the chestnut trees in the beer garden opposite glow in brown and gold. I breathe deeply and say over to myself:—“You are at home, you are at home.” But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I cannot feel at home amongst these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano—but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.”",
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                        "text": "“As she looks through the photos, she says quietly, “We had a lot of happy times together. I hope you remember some of them.” When I tell Brian stories about my life, he sees them differently from the way I do. He doesn’t see the loss. He sees the opportunity. The adventure. In front of my mother, he says to me, “No wonder you have so many cool stories,” and she says, “Thank you for saying that, Brian!” For the first time, I start to see my life in a new way. I start to see the opportunity, too. But I’m sad as I watch my mother tell him our stories. I worry that she thinks I hate her, that I won’t remember our better days, her best attempts to give me the happiest possible life.”",
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                        "text": "“My mom says, \"Do you know what the AIDS memorial quilt is all about?\" Jump to how much I hate my brother at this moment. I bought this fabric because I thought it would make a nice panel for Shane,\" Mom says. \"We just ran into some problems with what to sew on it.\" Give me amnesia. Flash. Give me new parents. Flash. Your mother didn't want to step on any toes,\" Dad says. He twists a drumstick off and starts scraping the meat onto a plate. \"With gay stuff you have to be so careful since everything means something in secret code. I mean, we didn't want to give people the wrong idea.\" My Mom leans over to scoop yams onto my plate, and says, \"Your father wanted a black border, but black on a field of blue would mean Shane was excited by leather sex, you know, bondage and discipline, sado and masochism.\" She says, \"Really, those panels are to help the people left behind.\" Strangers are going to see us and see Shane's name,\" my dad says. \"We didn't want them thinking things.\" The dishes all start their slow clockwise march around the table. The stuffing. The olives. The cranberry sauce. \"I wanted pink triangles but all the panels have pink triangles,\" my mom says. \"It's the Nazi symbol for homosexuals.\" She says,\"Your father suggested black triangles, but that would mean Shane was a lesbian. It looks like female pubic hair. The black triangle does.\" My father says, \"Then I wanted a green border, but it turns out that would mean Shane was a male prostitute.\" My mom says, \"We almost chose a red border, but that would mean fisting. Brown would mean either scat or rimming, we couldn't figure which.\" Yellow,\" my father says, \"means watersports.\" A lighter shade of blue,\" Mom says, \"would mean just regular oral sex.\" Regular white,\" my father says, \"would mean anal. White could also mean Shane was excited by men wearing underwear.\" He says, \"I can't remember which.\" My mother passes me the quilted chicken with the rolls still warm inside. We're supposed to sit and eat with Shane dead all over the table in front of us. Finally we just gave up,\" my mom says, \"and I made a nice tablecloth out of the material.\" Between the yams and the stuffing, Dad looks down at his plate and says, \"Do you know about rimming?\" I know it isn't table talk. And fisting?\" my mom asks. I say, I know. I don't mention Manus and his vocational porno magazines. We sit there, all of us around a blue shroud with the turkey more like a big dead baked animal than ever, the stuffing chock full of organs you can still recognize, the heart and gizzard and liver, the gravy thick with cooked fat and blood. The flower centerpiece could be a casket spray. Would you pass the butter, please?\" my mother says. To my father she says, \"Do you know what felching is?”",
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                        "text": "“Are they happy at all, ever?\" \"No\", my mother says. \"I don't know if they'll survive this.\" \"That's terrible,\" I say. \"It's a difficult situation, obviously. And I know you don't know this yet, but marriage all by itself is hard anyway,\" she says and examines a lock of my hair with concern. Can you believe this woman? She just says shit like that casually, with no regard, and then pretends my hair is the problem. \"Mom, just because I don't care about being married myself doesn't mean I don't understand how it works for other people.\" \"You're still young, you should care,\" she says. She studies the ends of my hair again. \"But not so young that you don't have to take vitamins,\" she says, and then the memorial service begins.”",
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                        "text": "“‎\"There is an easy standoff between the two kinds of mother which sometimes makes it hard for us to talk to each other. I suspect that the non-working mother looks at the working mother with envy and fear because she thinks that the working mum has got away with it. And the working mum looks back with fear and envy because she knows that she has not. In order to keep going in either role, you have to convince yourself that the alternative is bad. The working mother says, because I am more fulfilled as a person I can be a better mother to my children. And sometimes, she may even believe it. The mother who stays home knows that she is giving her kids an advantage, which is something to cling to when your toddler has emptied his beaker of juice over you last clean t-shirt.”",
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                        "text": "“Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight.\" \"That's great.\" I picked up my bathrobe. \"I was afraid I was going to have to get some sleep.\" She was bending over looking for her slippers. \"Don't be such an old fluff. You can sleep all day.\" She found her slippers and stood up in them. \"Is she really as afraid of her mother as she says?\" \"If she's got any sense. Mimi's poison.\" Nora screwed up her dark eyes at me and asked slowly: \"What are you holding out on me?\" \"Oh, dear,\" I said, \" I was hoping I wouldn't have to tell you. Dorothy is really my daughter. I didn't know what I was doing, Nora. It was spring in Venice and I was so young and there was a moon over the...\" \"Be funny. Don't you want something to eat?”",
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                        "text": "“That's too bad, Anneliese, the house is really spectacular. Anneke is a true talent.\" \"It will be a new standard-bearer for the neighborhood,\" Caroline says. \"I have no doubt,\" my mother says in a way that implies the opposite. And I? Snap. \"You have every doubt, although I can't imagine why. Exactly what did you want from me, except for me not to exist? I'm sorry I'm such a disappointment, but for the love of god, why on earth did you even come here? Surely with all your experience over these many years and many husbands, you have figured out how to avoid me, why did you come this time? Why did you not just tell Alan I wasn't going to be in town and save us all the fucking painful charade?\" Hedy reaches out and holds my hand, giving it a squeeze in a way that clearly says, \"You go, girl.\" And not, \"You might want to shut up now.\" \"This is why I avoided coming here, to face your accusations. You never wanted me, Anneke, not from the moment you were born. You wouldn't take the breast; I had to bottle-feed you from day one. You never wanted to be near me, always running off, playing by yourself, going into other rooms when I came near. When I would travel, never a card or a letter. Never once did you ever tell me you missed me when I called or when I returned. I did the best I could, Anneke, but it was never good enough.\" And then I start to laugh. Because the whole thing is so ridiculous. \"I didn't take the BREAST? You're mad at me because I didn't SUCKLE? You didn't travel, Anneliese, you LEFT. For months and years on end. You left me with your bitter, judgmental mother to go off with an endless string of men, and always made clear how uncomfortable you were on your rare visits home. Even when you married Joe and we were together for those three years, you weren't really there, were you? Not like a real mother. Do you know why I may never have kids of my own? Not because I can't or don't want to, but because I'm so afraid of being like you. Of being another in a long line of self-absorbed, cold, aloof bitches who are incapable of providing a loving home. And I will never forgive you for that. For making me think I shouldn't be a mother. But you know what? I'm beyond it. I'm beyond needing your approval or validation. So let me be clear about something, Mommy. Take whatever you need from this evening, because it is the last time you are welcome in my life. Fuck you.\" \"Hear, hear,\" Hedy says under her breath.”",
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