Oranges Flashcards
My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle.
CH1 Matriarch
The devil himself is a drunk (sometimes my mother invented theology).
CH1 Matriarch / Education
My mother had painted the white roses red and now she claimed they grew that way.
CH7
This is kindly light.
CH8 Matriarch
It’s an Abomination, it’s like saying we come from monkeys.
CH2 Education
So you just take care what you think is the heart might well be another organ.
CH4 Education
This little lily could herself be a house of demons.
CH1 Religion
These children of god, began the pastor, have fallen under Satan’s spell / fallen foul of their lusts.
CH6 Religion
To the pure all things are pure.
CH6 Religion
(demon) they talk a lot but they don’t see nothing.
CH6 Religion
Romantic love for another woman was a sin.
CH7 Religion
Anyone could be saved and anyone could fall to the devil, it was their choice.
CH7 Religion
Their kind of violence leaves no visible mark.
CH8 Religion
I couldn’t attract her attention, so I took an orange and went back to bed.
CH2 Family
She softened ‘good girl’
CH3 Family
I felt a blow that wrapped around my head like a bandage. I lay on the lino looking up into the face.
CH6 Family
She’s all right, I murmured mechanically (mother)
CH6 Family
Perhaps the Lord does, but my mother didn’t (forgive and forget)
CH6 Family
She burnt a whole lot more than the letters that night in the backyard. I don’t think she knew.
CH6 Family
