Moment 3: Chapter 14 Ruth lashes out after not finding her possible Flashcards
“Ruth gave him an irritated look…”
“Ruth gave him an irritated look. ‘Tommy, please shut up with all this “bit of fun” stuff. No one’s listening.’ “
” ‘They don’t ever, ever use…’ “
” ‘They don’t ever, ever use people like that woman. Think about it. Why would she want to? We all know it so why don’t we all face it. We’re not modelled from that sort.”
” ‘We all know it. We’re modelled…’ “
” ‘We all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps, convicts, maybe, just so long as they aren’t psychos. That’s what we come from. We all know it so why don’t we say it?’ “
” ‘Do you think she’d have talked to us…’ “
” ‘Do you think she’d have talked to us like that if she’d known what we really were? […] She’d have thrown us out. We know it, so we might as well just say it.’ “
” ‘If you want to look for possibles…’ “
” ‘If you want to look for possibles, if you want to do it properly, you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet, that’s where you’ll find we all came from.’ “
