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Karaoke, whose real name is Adelaine Jones, is the most beautiful girl in Kitamaat Village. She’s Josh’s niece and cousin to Frank, Bib, Cheese, Pooch, and Ronnie. She has had a rough life—near the end of the book, she reveals that Josh has been molesting her—and starts to run away, drink, and do drugs by her early teens. Jimmy is smitten from the moment he first lays eyes on her in grade school, and they begin to date when they are in high school.
Karaoke (Adelaine Jones) Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Karaoke (Adelaine Jones) or refer to Karaoke (Adelaine Jones). 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 3: In Search of the Elusive Sasquatch
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“Alberni? Really? There’s a treatment centre where the residential school used to be?” one of the women said to Aunt Trudy.
Another woman laughed, then said, “Hey, how many priests does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”
“How many?”
“Three. One to screw it, one to beat it for being screwed and one to tell the lawyers that no screwing took place.”
“That’s not funny,” Josh said.
“That’s the point,” the woman said.
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“Well,” I said. “You’re talking to the queen of fuckups and you’d have to do a lot more to take my crown away.”
He reached over and kept giving me nudges until I looked at him. “You weren’t that bad.”
“You weren’t the one that ran away.”
“You’re back now. You’re dealing with things. I didn’t understand what it was like to lose something. Now that I do, I think you’re doing fine. I mean, Karaoke didn’t die on me. She just dumped me and I flipped. I don’t know what I’d do if someone actually died on me.”
I laughed. “You call that flipping? That was a little spaz.”
“Yeah, well…”
We drifted off in a comfortable silence.
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Karaoke (Adelaine Jones) Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Karaoke (Adelaine Jones) or refer to Karaoke (Adelaine Jones). 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 3: In Search of the Elusive Sasquatch
Quotes
“Alberni? Really? There’s a treatment centre where the residential school used to be?” one of the women said to Aunt Trudy.
Another woman laughed, then said, “Hey, how many priests does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”
“How many?”
“Three. One to screw it, one to beat it for being screwed and one to tell the lawyers that no screwing took place.”
“That’s not funny,” Josh said.
“That’s the point,” the woman said.
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“Well,” I said. “You’re talking to the queen of fuckups and you’d have to do a lot more to take my crown away.”
He reached over and kept giving me nudges until I looked at him. “You weren’t that bad.”
“You weren’t the one that ran away.”
“You’re back now. You’re dealing with things. I didn’t understand what it was like to lose something. Now that I do, I think you’re doing fine. I mean, Karaoke didn’t die on me. She just dumped me and I flipped. I don’t know what I’d do if someone actually died on me.”
I laughed. “You call that flipping? That was a little spaz.”
“Yeah, well…”
We drifted off in a comfortable silence.
