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Sophie was born with six toes on each foot—a mutation that classifies her as a Blasphemy in Waknuk. David meets Sophie as a young child, and does not understand why Sophie would want to hide her feet. Later, when Alan sees her six-toed footprint, Sophie and her parents are forced to flee Waknuk. When David leaves Waknuk years later, Sophie helps Petra and Rosalind escape from Gordon’s camp, and provides them and David with shelter in her cave. She loves Gordon and dies while fleeing with him from the battle between the Waknukians and the Fringe people.
Sophie Wender Quotes in The Chrysalids
The The Chrysalids quotes below are all either spoken by Sophie Wender or refer to Sophie Wender. 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
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“If John and Mary Wender had been there when I woke up struggling and crying, and then lay in the dark trying to convince myself that the terrible picture was nothing more than a dream, they would, I think, have felt quite a lot easier in their minds.”
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Chapter 6
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“Well, every part of the definition is as important as any other; and if a child doesn’t come within it, then it isn’t human, and that means it doesn’t have as soul. It is not in the image of God, it is an imitation, and in the imitations there is always some mistake. Only God produces perfection, so although deviations may look like us in many ways, they cannot be really human. They are something quite different.”
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Sophie Wender Quotes in The Chrysalids
The The Chrysalids quotes below are all either spoken by Sophie Wender or refer to Sophie Wender. 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 3
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“If John and Mary Wender had been there when I woke up struggling and crying, and then lay in the dark trying to convince myself that the terrible picture was nothing more than a dream, they would, I think, have felt quite a lot easier in their minds.”
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Chapter 6
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“Well, every part of the definition is as important as any other; and if a child doesn’t come within it, then it isn’t human, and that means it doesn’t have as soul. It is not in the image of God, it is an imitation, and in the imitations there is always some mistake. Only God produces perfection, so although deviations may look like us in many ways, they cannot be really human. They are something quite different.”
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