Kathy Quotes Flashcards
“This was all a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong, but my memory of it is that…” (chapter 2)
“I don’t know how it was where you were” (chapter 2)
“I felt like saying: Tommy, why don’t you grow up? But I stopped myself” (chapter 2)
“I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything” (about Tommy being bullied, chapter 2)
“we often had our most intimate conversations lying in the dark before we fell asleep” (chapter 2)
“and I realised everyone was waiting for Ruth’s response” (chapter 2)
“the guardians decided how many your particular masterpiece merited” / “I can see why the Exchanges became so important to us” / “of building up a collection of personal possessions” (chapter 2)
“If you think about it, being dependent on each other to produce the stuff that might become your private treasures - that’s bound to do things to your relationships” (chapter 2)
“I wouldn’t mind at all if that’s where I ended up” (chapter 2)
“When you lift an arm, or when someone sits up in bed, you can feel this pale, shadowy movement all around you in the tiles” (chapter 2, ominous)
“But we didn’t know a thing about poetry. We didn’t care about it. It’s strange” (chapter 2)
“Ruth didn’t get my point - or maybe she was deliberately avoiding it. Maybe she was determined to remember us all as more sophisticated than we were” (chapter 2)
“But let me get back to Tommy” (chapter 2)
“And it came home to me, with a kind of chill, that Tommy had been going through what he’d been going through not just for weeks or months, but for years” (chapter 2)
“Tommy didn’t quite put it this way, but I’m sure that’s how it happened” (chapter 2)
“Miss Geraldine was everyone’s favourite guardian […] she was gentle, soft-spoken and always comforted you when you needed it” (chapter 2)
