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Lindsey Lee Wells
Hollis is Lindsey’s mother. She runs the Gutshot textile factory and takes in Colin and Hassan on their road trip. Lindsey is often frustrated by her mother’s attempts to get her to go to college out of town. By the end of the novel, it is clear that Hollis is doing everything she can to save Gutshot, but that the town is likely to die soon because the textile factory is doing poorly. Hollis wants her daughter to leave because she wants her to have a future outside of her declining hometown.
Hollis Wells Quotes in An Abundance of Katherines
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Chapter 7
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Like it or not, Colin thought, road trips have destinations.
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No longer a prodigy, not yet a genius – but still a smartypants.
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Chapter 19
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“It’s funny, what people will do to be remembered.”
“Well, or to be forgotten, because someday no one will know who’s really buried there. Already a lot of kids at school and stuff think the Archduke is really buried here, and I like that. I like knowing one story and having everyone else know another. That’s why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they’ll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.”
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Hollis Wells Quotes in An Abundance of Katherines
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Chapter 7
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Like it or not, Colin thought, road trips have destinations.
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No longer a prodigy, not yet a genius – but still a smartypants.
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Chapter 19
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“It’s funny, what people will do to be remembered.”
“Well, or to be forgotten, because someday no one will know who’s really buried there. Already a lot of kids at school and stuff think the Archduke is really buried here, and I like that. I like knowing one story and having everyone else know another. That’s why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they’ll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.”
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