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Curt is the only boy at Harrison Prep that Kim seriously dates. When Kim begins at Harrison, Curt goes along with Greg's bullying, though he begins to come around in high school when Kim agrees to help him fix his grades after an injury. This leads eventually to tutoring sessions and later, a romance. Many of their tutoring sessions take place in the art room, where Curt spends as much time as possible carving polished abstract wooden sculptures. Though Curt and Kim very much enjoy kissing each other, Kim knows from the start that their relationship won't go anywhere: Curt has no idea what it's like to be poor, is callous and unfeeling when he talks about lower class people he encounters, and he's unable to recognize his own privilege as a wealthy kid from the suburbs. Kim and Curt break up when Mrs. Wu dies and Kim and Matt profess their love for each other, though Curt is later the first person Kim tells about her pregnancy. Kim realizes how good of friends they are when he offers seriously to marry her, though she turns him down. He goes on to attend the Rhode Island School of Design.
Curt Quotes in Girl in Translation
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I was just a poor girl whose main practical skill was bagging skirts faster than normal […] I was good at school but so were many of the other kids, most of whom had been groomed since birth to get into the right college. No matter how well I did in my classes or how well I managed to fake belonging to the cool circle, I knew I was not one of them.
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I didn't say anything more, but I thought about the fathers and brothers of the kids at the factory who worked as waiters […] What would they have done if they'd had to pay for such an expensive meal out of their tips? Many of them weren't paid anything but their tips […] Curt had no comprehension of what it was like to be working class.
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Curt Quotes in Girl in Translation
The Girl in Translation quotes below are all either spoken by Curt or refer to Curt. 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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I was just a poor girl whose main practical skill was bagging skirts faster than normal […] I was good at school but so were many of the other kids, most of whom had been groomed since birth to get into the right college. No matter how well I did in my classes or how well I managed to fake belonging to the cool circle, I knew I was not one of them.
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I didn't say anything more, but I thought about the fathers and brothers of the kids at the factory who worked as waiters […] What would they have done if they'd had to pay for such an expensive meal out of their tips? Many of them weren't paid anything but their tips […] Curt had no comprehension of what it was like to be working class.
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