Sunset Song Flashcards
1.1
No more than ploughed land
1.2
Two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart
1.3
You hated the land … one day; the next you’d waken with the peewits crying in the heat of you … the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies
1.4
She hated and loved the land in a breath
2.1
She weeped for the father she’d never helped and forgot to love
2.2
A mist of fog in the hills
2.3
The land was forever, it moved and changed below you, but was forever
2.4
Even her love might hardly endure, but beside it the hate was no more than the whimpering and fear of a child that cowered from the wind in the lithe of its mothers skirts.
3.1
This harvest gathered to herself at last, reaped and garnered and hers in her heart and body.
3.2
Corn and the shining hollow stalks of the straw, they wove a pattern about her life.
4.1
She knew she liked him, loved him as they said in the soppy English books.
4.2
Sweet and wild with his kiss
4.3
It had been like struggling with someone deep in a nightmare, when the blankets are over your head and you can hardly breathe.
4.4
He were a cat that played with a mouse
4.5
It seemed to her that a tortured, tormented thing looked out from Ewans eyes
