Comparative Quotes Flashcards
For Miriam… (S)
For Miriam, the past stopped when Charlie died… (all of her fond memories) are memories where she is a we.
That room… (S)
That room was where a deal was offered and refused, and a soul buckled out of shape forever.
Torsten only refers to her… (S)
as “Sie”
The memories I value most… (N)
The memories I value most, I don’t see them ever fading. First I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them.
The line… (N)
The line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.
Herr Winz waiting for… (S)
the “Second Coming of Socialism”
It was so much… (S)
It was so much better before. (Professor Mushroom)
It was that exchange… (N)
It was that exchange, when we finally mentioned the closing of Hailsham that suddenly brought us close again. (With Laura)
If I drive… (N)
If I drive past one I keep looking over to it for as long as possible.
I became, officially… (S)
I became, officially, an Enemy of the State at sixteen.
Her general drift… (N)
Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students. (Miss Emily)
A part of us… (N)
A part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us.
She is a hermit crab… (S)
She is a hermit crab, all soft fleshed with friends, but ready to whisk back into its shell at the slightest sign of contact.
Ruth and I… (N)
Ruth and I often found ourselves remembering these things.
Funder went to Germany to uncover stories because… (S)
she is aware that “memory… reveals” the truth.
The Stasi destroyed evidence, leaving only… (S)
“shredded and hand-ripped files, index cards, photos and unwound tapes and film.”
Hagen Koch was raised… (S)
“by [his] parents as a paragon of a regime they did not believe in.”
At that moment… (S)
At that moment, my world broke apart.
The GDR was like a religion to me… (S)
The GDR was like a religion to me, it was something I was brought up to believe in.
It’s much, much worse… (N)
It’s much, much worse for you to smoke than it ever was for me.
Your life must now run… (N)
Your life must now run the course that’s been set out for it.
If you were a boy and a girl… (N)
If you were a boy and a girl, and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. (Chrissie)
It should have been… (N)
It should have been you two. I’m not pretending I didn’t always see it. Of course I did, as far back as I can remember, but I kept you apart.
Once Julia lost her Italian boyfriend… (S)
she was forced to “subordinate [her]self to authority.”
