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Davis is Aza's love interest. He comes from a very wealthy family; his father, Davis Pickett Sr., owns the largest engineering firm in Indianapolis. His mother died when he was a child, and he originally met Aza at "sad camp," a camp for children who have lost a parent. He has a plastic Iron Man figure that he's loved since he was a child, and he keeps it for comfort throughout the novel. When Davis's father mysteriously disappears after he's accused of fraud and embezzlement, Davis is thrust into the role of a parent to his thirteen-year-old brother, Noah. He struggles to fill this role alone, but tries to separate himself from other people because he fears people just want to be close to him for his money. He loves astronomy and is blind to the privileges afforded to him because of his wealth. Although he abandons his social media channels after his father disappears, Aza discovers Davis' private and well-hidden blog, where he writes poetry and short musings about his life. More than anything, Davis wishes that his father had been, or would be, a true father figure to him and Noah. He feels unloved because Mr. Pickett leaves his entire estate to a reptile named Tua rather than his sons. When Aza tells Davis that she may have discovered his father's body, Davis finally decides to go to the police and give Noah closure. He moves to Colorado with Noah and finishes high school at a public school after realizing that being a good brother to Noah is more important than money.
Davis Pickett Jr. Quotes in Turtles All the Way Down
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Chapter 9
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... now I was talking about parasite-infected bird feces, which was more or less the opposite of romance, but I couldn't stop myself, because I wanted him to understand that I felt like the fish, like my whole story was written by someone else.
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Chapter 12
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He's, just... I guess at some point, you realize that whoever takes care of you is just a person, and that they have no superpowers and can't actually protect you from getting hurt. Which is one thing. But Noah is starting to understand that maybe the person he thought was a superhero turns out sort of to be the villain.
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When my thoughts spiraled, I was in the spiral, and of it. And I wanted to tell him that the idea of being in a feeling gave language to something I couldn't describe before, created a form for it, but I couldn't figure out how to say any of that out loud.
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His bacteria would be in me forever, eighty million of them, breeding and growing and joining my bacteria and producing God knows what.
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Chapter 13
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Him: When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else.
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Chapter 15
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As I looked at his face looking at mine, I realized the light that made him visible to me came mostly from a cycle: Our screens were lighting each of us with light from the other's bedroom. I could only see him because he could see me.
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Chapter 24
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... I realized something Davis must have already known: Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.
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Davis Pickett Jr. Quotes in Turtles All the Way Down
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Chapter 9
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... now I was talking about parasite-infected bird feces, which was more or less the opposite of romance, but I couldn't stop myself, because I wanted him to understand that I felt like the fish, like my whole story was written by someone else.
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Chapter 12
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He's, just... I guess at some point, you realize that whoever takes care of you is just a person, and that they have no superpowers and can't actually protect you from getting hurt. Which is one thing. But Noah is starting to understand that maybe the person he thought was a superhero turns out sort of to be the villain.
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When my thoughts spiraled, I was in the spiral, and of it. And I wanted to tell him that the idea of being in a feeling gave language to something I couldn't describe before, created a form for it, but I couldn't figure out how to say any of that out loud.
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His bacteria would be in me forever, eighty million of them, breeding and growing and joining my bacteria and producing God knows what.
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Chapter 13
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Him: When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else.
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Chapter 15
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As I looked at his face looking at mine, I realized the light that made him visible to me came mostly from a cycle: Our screens were lighting each of us with light from the other's bedroom. I could only see him because he could see me.
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Chapter 24
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... I realized something Davis must have already known: Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.
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