quotes Dreamhouse Flashcards
1
Q
P : past
A
- backward glances only crick the neck
- at least - that’s how she remembers it
- the past doesn’t amount to much in the end, does it?
- it was a time of darkness
- hope is a flag waved in a country yet to exist
- Rachel would be forever dead
- she and Richard made their mismatch
- they have never spoken in quite a way since
2
Q
P : denial
A
- she was the girl from the dair who died
- she liked to live with her head buried deep in the sand
- I would never have cared about getting blood on my seats!
- how glorious it would be not to have to wake up
3
Q
P : wrong doing
A
- it undid ever single on of Patricia’s acts of kindness, if acts of kindness they ever were
- her words are empty
- what she can recall is the irritation with the girl
4
Q
P : looksmart
A
- you were like the sun, my son
- grateful for the deception
5
Q
L : alienation
A
- he is an intruder in his own land
- you never knew me, madam
- slightly less than human
- I thought I meant something, but I didn’t
- and every holiday I came to sleep in my mud hut
- too many words inside his head for himself
- I don’t think I fitted anywhere
- nothing has changed. People like her are still sitting in their houses. People like him are still looking in
6
Q
L : patricia
A
- don’t you mean always wanting to please you?
- how easily you let yourself off the hook
- he was like her toy, her toy monkey, with a battery up its arse
- what you have always been afraid of: the truth
- at the time I saw it as murder, plain and simple
- because you didn’t want her blood on your seats
- I thought you cared but you didn’t, all you cared about were your seats
7
Q
L : past
A
- sometimes a crick in the neck is exactly what the doctor ordered
- he was making much of this up
8
Q
B : dehuminisation
A
- they both knew he is the one with the power over her, and he will never let either of them forget it
- she won’t come unless you call her like you call one of your dogs
- power lies with those who withhold their information from others. If you give yourself away, you no longer own yourself
9
Q
B : truth
A
- you don’t know the truth
- she likes him for his lies far better than she likes him for his truths
10
Q
generic
A
- times have changed
- english remains the language of lies and liars
- even though everything has happened
- none of this is easy
- a place with no more lief left in it
- the future is too tenuous a place
