Good Morning, Midnight Flashcards
“I’ve had enough of these streets…”
“I’ve had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime”
Page 32
“The street is so narrow…”
“The street is so narrow that we are face to face”
P.25
“No hospitable doors…”
“No hospitable doors, no lit windows, just throwning darkness”
P.23
“Tall…”
‘Tall cubes of darkness’
P.23
“A room is a place…”
“A room is a place where you hide from the wolves outside”
P.28
“Quite like old times…”
“Quite like old times, the room says. Yes? No?”
Page 1
“I started to cry… I understand. All the same…
“I started to cry… I understand. All the same… sometimes I’m just as unhappy as you are. But that’s not to say that I let everybody see it”
P.4
“There are two beds, a big one for Madame…”
“There are two beds, a big one for Madame and a smaller one on the opposite side for Monsieur”
P.1
“The street outside us narrow…”
“The street outside is narrow, cobble stoned, going sharply uphill and ending in a flight of steps”
P.1
“I started to cry… it was…”
“I started to cry… it was something I remembered”
P.4
“He points to the placard and his hands…”
“He points to the placard and his hands are made of steel… the steal finger points along a long stone passage”
P.7
Symbolic of the triumph of science and technology over the natural world?
“I’m here because…”
“I’m here because I’m here because I’m here”
P.13
“Did I say all this?…”
“Did I say all this? Of course I didn’t. I didn’t even think it”
P.21
“Leave me alone…”
“Leave me alone… (they’ll do that alright my dear)”
P.32
“I watch my face gradually breaking up…”
“I watch my face gradually breaking up - cheeks puffing out, eyes getting smaller”
P.33
