u/clairejv

On my umpteenth re-listen of the NtN audiobook this week, I noticed Moira Quirk uses a speech pattern for both >!John and Nona that she doesn't use for anyone else. In the middle of a sentence, she'll take a tiny pause and breathe out. A Nona example is, "which Nona knew was a [tiny pause with exhale] rude word." A John example is, "and when we [tiny pause with exhale] argued back, they reminded us that cows had best friends." I don't think she has any other character do this, and I LOVE that both John and Nona (at least in Nona's internal monologue) do it.!<