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Holy Thursday quotes

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  • ‘beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow ‘
    ‘- O… flowers of London town!’
  • ‘raise to heaven the voice of song… harmonious thundering ‘
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Equilibrium quotes

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  • ‘my grandfathers eyes became two stopwatches’
  • ‘my grandfather was quiet as a body cut open for autopsy’
  • ‘brother was crowned with a name/ my grandfather’s brain began to forget his’
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The Bluebell quotes

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  • ‘Upon a little trembling flower, / A single sweet bluebell.’
  • ‘All carelessly, I strayed.’
  • ‘And thus it made me mourn.’
  • ‘subtle spirit dwells … a silent eloquence..’
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Midnight on the Great Western quotes

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  • ‘Bewrapt past knowing to what he was going,’
  • ‘That twinkled gleams of the lamp’s sad beams,’
  • ‘O journeying boy…’
  • ‘Thing plunge alone?’
  • ‘Region of sin… not of?’
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Prayer quotes

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  • ‘She stared on, ahead.’ Weak sounding constants convey mother passing away
  • ‘ by midnight her rings were off.’
  • ’ hurled languages hurt…’
  • ‘I made an animal noise…’
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Happy Birthday Moon quotes

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  • ‘deaf son who slurs his speech…’
  • ‘I can’t say it’
  • ‘we hear each other, really hear eachother ‘
  • ‘Dad taps the page, says, try again,’
  • ‘what else will help us?’
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Out, Out- quotes

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  • ‘The buzz-saw snarled and rattled…’
  • ‘At the word … leaped out at the boys hand…’
  • ‘boy counts so much when saved form work…’
  • ‘keep the life from spilling.’
  • ’ little-less-nothing!’
  • ‘not the one dead, turned to their affairs…’
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Tea With Our Grandmothers quotes

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  • ‘honeyed laugh …’
  • ‘her own bad back with Brocken/ Swahili’
  • ‘with three lines on each cheek, a tally of surviving’
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Baby song quotes

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  • ‘I fall imto a lighted room.’
  • ‘it is warm and wet and black?’
  • ‘lie there, raging, small amd red.”
  • ‘rain of blood poured round her room … time orars outside this room.’
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You’re quotes

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  • ‘Gilled like a fish…’
  • ‘Vague as fog and looked for like mail.’
  • ‘A clean slate, with your own face on.’
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Cold Knap Lake quotes

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  • ‘We once watched a crowd…’
  • ‘blue-lipped … dressed in waters long green silk…’
  • ‘Was I there?’
  • ‘troubled surface somehting else shadowy under dipped fingers … satiny mud blooms in cloudiness…’
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My First Weeks quotes

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  • ‘like liquid, my head slid through, my legs…’
  • ‘Milk. Heat. Everyday.’
  • ‘I could have the world in my mouth …. sanity breast…’
  • ‘arms and legs like feelers in the light.’
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Venus’s-flytraps-Yusef quotes

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  • ‘I am five’
  • ‘mouths like where babies come from…’
  • ‘I wonder hwat death tastes like.’
  • ‘I dont suppose to know.’
  • ‘My mama says I’m a mistake’
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Love quotes

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  • ‘I hadn’t met his kind before.’
  • ‘he was an emperor/ , dying on silk cushions,’
  • ‘hot as smelted coin..’
  • ‘I started there.’
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Theme for English B quotes

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  • ‘I am twenty-two, coloured, born in Winston-Salen.’
  • ‘hear me - we too … Me - who?’
  • ‘I like to eat, sleep, drink and be in love.’
  • ‘yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.’
  • ’ This is page for English B’
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