Reggie Quotes Flashcards
Initial introduction of Reggie
“Reggie was sixteen and could have passed for twelve. If she forgot her bus pass she could still get on board for a child’s fare. Nobody asked, nobody checked, nobody really took any notice of Reggie at all. Sometimes she wondered if she was invisible. It was very easy to slip between the cracks, especially if you were small” - 25
reggies age - chapter 3
“inside she was a hundred years old” - 25
how she feels - chapter 3
“ helpless”, “confused” and “small” - 28
ref to dickens 3
32 “Reggie liked Dickens, his books were full of plucky abandoned orphans struggling to make their way in the world. Reggie knew that journey only too well”
virgin reggie 3
Pg 26 “Reggie would happily die a virgin. The virgin queen. Virgo Regina. A vestal virgin”
effect of mothers death - trauma 3
Pg 36 “but coming home to an empty house with no one to say hello was even worse. You would have never thought that two little words could be so important” - 36
mother: mermaid 3
56 “feel what it was like, imagining her mother anchored underwater by her hair like some new, mysterious strain of seaweed”
brother and puppy 3
29 “she’d had a puppy once but her brother threw it out of the window” “second worst day of Reggie’s life so far”
love for Dr H and Baby - ch 3
Pg 47 “they weren’t her family. And Dr Hunter and the baby were”
end of chapter 3 what does Joanna say to her?
Pg 61 “when everything else is gone, love still remains” “But what good did it do you? None at all”
socioeconomic background
Pg 30 “third-floor shoebox” “windowless boxroom”
sanctuary: chapter six - fond memory reggie has of mother
“reggie liked to put her arm around mum’s waist and feel the comfortable roll of fat that girdled her middle and her squashy tummy” - 95
great expectations
satis house chapter 8
how does reggie want dr h to think of her
“heroically, cheerfully competent” - 122
satis house chapter 8
victimisation of reggie
“reggie chase, orphan of the parish, poor Jenny Wren, Little Reggie, the infant phenomenon” - 123
mermaid imagery ch 8
“her beautiful long hair was trapped in a drain down in the turquoise depth it was too late”
“english mermaid free” - 129
gary left her mum - ch 8
pg 131 “reggie waited to see if he would recognize her but her didn’t even notice her”
“with another woman. Almost like infidelity”
ref to wuthering heights and rebecca end of chapter 8
pg 133 “cathy home to Wuthering Heights. Mum’s ghost looking for Reggie. Back soon. Je reviens. Or just nobody and nothing. Hast falls the eventide; the darkness deepens”
chapter 11: reggie as mouse
pg 167 “reggie chase, as small as a mouse, as quiet as a house with no home”
chapter 11: reggies insinct to protect
pg 167 “reggie leaped instinctively to her feet”
pg 168 “poised for flight”
“reggie picked up the phone in the hall and dialled 999”
“reggie wasn’t going to be that person who presumed” - learns from dr hunter
“the world wasn’t going to end this night. Not if Reggie had anything to do with it”
chapter 11: train imagery
pg 167 “growing louder and louder”
“great rumbling”
“seemed to be rolling towards the house”
“as if a giant hand was clawing a giant blackboard”
chapter 13: reggie confused questioning where joanna has gone
“what did he mean she’d gone away? gone away? gone away where? And why?” - 175
which page is the interrogation from reggie to mr hunter about joanna leaving: ch 13
pg 176
reggies day now joanna was gone: ch 13
pg 177 “the day suddenly stretched emptily ahead”
reggie talks about train crash deaths specifically: ch 13
people she knew had died. people she didn’t know had died. Drama
reggie talks about journalist coming after her mum died - ch 13
“man lurking in the stairwell”
“sheepish little wave as if even he, battle-hardened veteran of a hundred local tragedies … could understand why a girl who had just lost her mother might not want to be photographed at eight in the morning with her eyes red-raw from weeping”
“fuck off” - 180
trauma of helping during train crash ch 13
“her brain was fudge”
“she had come in from the train crash, soaked to the skin and covered in mud and filth and blood. The man’s blood” 183
