Semester 2 Exam Quotes Flashcards
Forest Winter: “lonely”
“It was lonely in the middle of the day with no company but the pale trunks of karri trees.”
Forest Winter: “muted”
“Having the baby had muted her”
Forest Winter: “hands”
“They no longer looked like guitarist’s hands.”
No memory comes: “photo”
“The boy looks though old photo albums”
No memory comes: “back”
“She graduates from the back seat to the front”
The water was dark and it went forever down: “Olympics”
“The girl knew that she had a better chance of making the Olympics than changing her mother.”
The water was dark and it went forever down: “breathing”
“Her breathing was metrical”
The water was dark and it went forever down: “machine”
“She swam and thought the thoughts of a machine.”
The water was dark and it went forever down: “parts”
“She moved all her parts. Everything did its task.”
The water was dark and it went forever down: “engine”
“Be an engine. Don’t complain. Don’t ask. Don’t hesitate. Swim, don’t think.”
The water was dark and it went forever down: “faltered”
“Be an engine. But she faltered”
Minimum of Two: “die”
“The look of her when she came into the house that night nearly three years ago made me want to die.”
Minimum of Two: “waiting”
“She looked as though she was waiting to die”
Minimum of Two: “kill”
“That night that made her look at me as though I was diseased, that was the night I decided to kill Fred Blakey.”
Distant lands: “Pakistani”
“He father would have thrown him out. Not only was he freeloading; she guessed he was a Pakistani too”
Laps: “outcast”
“She had come from her home town a loser, an outcast”
Laps: “weatherboard”
“The Cooksons lived in a little weatherboard house, thick with passionfruit and grape vines, on the hill above Scarborough Beach”
Laps: “houses”
“Houses don’t matter, though… Ya just live in um, that’s all”
The strong one: “change”
“Rachel wondered if it would ever happen, if there’d ever be a change for the better”
More: “bitter”
“Don’t be bitter, be better”
The age of innocence “assured”
“…His marriage assured him of a social position but not necessarily respect.”
The age of innocence: “conformity”
“He questioned conformity in private but in public he upheld family and tradition.”
The age of innocence: “labelled”
Archer: “Everything is labelled but everyone is not”
The age of innocence: “loneliness”
Ellen: “Loneliness is living amongst all these kind people who only ask you to pretend.”
