Quotations Flashcards
”We took away your art because”………
“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
(Madame)
“There would always be a barrier”…..
“There would always be a barrier against the world seeing you as properly human”.
“She was afraid of us”…..
“She was afraid of us in the same way someone might be afraid of spiders”.
“I lost Ruth. Then I lost”…….
“I lost Ruth. Then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them. I suppose i lost Hailsham too”
(Kathy)
“My name is Kathy H.”…….
“My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old. I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years.”
(Kathy: chapter 1)
“I just waited a bit,”…….
“I just waited a bit, then turned back in the car, to drive off to wherever it was i was supposed to be.”
“Like a little tribe”……
“Like a little tribe i kept worrying that one of the strings would come unraveled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky”
“Poor creatures. What did we do to you?”………
“Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans”
“You’ve been told and not told.”…….
“You’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand. ”
(Miss Lucy)
“I don’t know how it was where you were,”…….
“I don’t know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham we had to have some sort of medical almost every week.”
“If you knew for sure you’d complete,”…….
“If you knew for sure you’d complete, it would be easier. But they never tell us for sure.”
(Tommy)
“We all know it.”……..
“We all know it. We were modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps.”
(Ruth)
