Eric Quotes Flashcards
“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”
1
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest
possible prices”
2
“it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”
3
“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough
luck.”
4
“I’d have let her stay”
5
“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I
threatened to make a row”
6
“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the
hellish thing.”
7
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty
and a good sport-”
8
“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In
a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as
she was.”
9
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble-
that’s why.”
10
“Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned
her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my
child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn
you-”
11
“He was our police inspector all right”
12
“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and
that’s what matters-”
13
