NLMG important quotations in part 1 & 2 Flashcards
Ruth’s trash quotation
“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?”
Miss Lucy’s told question
“Your told and not told.”
Miss Lucy’s fence quotation
“It’s just as well the fences at Hailsham aren’t electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes.”
Ruth’s tommy mockery quotation
“He really, really likes you, he thinks you’re really good. But I know he doesn’t see you like, you know, a proper girlfriend”
Miss Lucy’s jobs quote
“None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you.”
Kathy’s balloon quotation
“I thought about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man’s fist. Once that happened, there’d be no real sense in which those balloons belonged with each other any more.”
Kathy’s cottages start quote
“Those early months at the Cottages had been a strange time in our friendship. We were quarrelling over all kinds of little things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever.”
Kathy’s unreliable narrator quote
“Or maybe I’m remembering it wrong.”
How long has Kathy been a carer quotation
“A carer….for over 11 years”
Kathy’s reaction to Ruth’s lies
“[I was] floored by the fact the Ruth would come out with such a trick”
Tommy being described as a…
“Mad animal”
Description of Tommy’s tantrums
“Thunderous” rages and “tantrums”
Ruth’s rein quote
“I accepted the invisible rein”
Ruth mocking Kathy
“So what’s upsetting little Kathy, Ruth isn’t paying enough attention to her.”
Ruth’s instructions
“Shouting instructions”
