Hmt Flashcards
“We yearned for the future”
“We learned to whisper almost without sound”
“We still had our bodies. That was our fantasy”
“I try not to think much”
“A sister dripped in blood”
“The tulips are red, a darker crimson towards the stem, as if they have been cut and are beginning to heal”
“ I once has a garden. I can remember the smell of the turned earth…”
Olfactory - Smell, sensory language
“Perhaps he is an eye”
Referring to Nick
“Nobody’s heart is perfect”
Links to 1984 -
“Milk and honey”
“I remember the rules, rules that were never spelled out but that every woman knew”
“I would like to believe this story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.. if it’s a story I’m telling, the i have control over the ending. There will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. ”
“Was he in my room? I called it mine.”
“Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.”
“We are for breeding purposes”
