TGA QUOTES

Question 1

“He felt it was the weak spot…

Answer 1

…the broken part which let polio in”

Question 2

“Polio is like love…

Answer 2

…years later when you think you have recovered it comes back”

Question 3

“The babyishness

Answer 3

…of this place”

Question 4

“Why does the poet say

Answer 4

…he learnt everything he knows there?”

Question 5

“Coffins you lived in

Answer 5

…the worst thing polio could do to you next to death”

Question 6

“Most of Franks relatives had died during the war…

Answer 6

…but he never felt their loss”

Question 7

“her stories grew up with him, they were intertwined with his past

Answer 7

…part of him like the food she prepared”

Question 8

“There was an air of disapproval about her

Answer 8

…Meyer was left with a sense of expulsion”

Question 9

“ghosts

Answer 9

…of his past”

Question 10

“with a practiced movement

Answer 10

…Meyer blinked and turned his head”

Question 11

“Suddenly he felt

Answer 11

…an urge to see Frank”

Question 12

“Buried in the earth

Answer 12

…which my father learned to love”

Question 13

“Budapest was the glamorous love of his life who betrayed him

Answer 13

…Perth was a flat-faced, wide-hipped country girl whom he’d been forced to take as a wife. only time would tell if one day he would reach out and take her hand”

Question 14

“[Budapest] Had become

Answer 14

…a game of chance”

Question 15

“Taken

Answer 15

…from her”

Question 16

“Won’t be

Answer 16

…needing it”

Question 17

“[Sally] She had been

Answer 17

…in a bad mood”

Question 18

“New

Answer 18

…Australian”

Question 19

“All been

Answer 19

…messages”

Question 20

“Who had so quickly acquired an accent like the other kids, so carefully adapted his clothes to look like theirs

Answer 20

…was now always going to stand out”

Question 21

“are we getting better

Answer 21

…or is this just a reprieve”

Question 22

“Her stomach ached it hurt to urinate

Answer 22

…her gums had shrunk”

Question 23

“Because if [Meyer] didn’t have a hat in the freezing

Answer 23

…mountains of Ukraine…she didn’t want to wear one”

Question 24

“Gutted,

Answer 24

…feeble, shellshocked”

Question 25

“The past seems

Answer 25

…far away”

Question 26

“The ghost like

Answer 26

…memory of confinement and helplessness”

Question 27

“They take the

Answer 27

…weak ones first”

Question 28

“Near universal rejection

Answer 28

…refusal, contempt”

Question 29

“Love was instantaneous

Answer 29

…like inspiration”

Question 30

“mystery

Answer 30

…and glamour”

Question 31

“less bright to him

Answer 31

…older and sadder”

Question 32

“Given his

Answer 32

…vocation; poet”

Question 33

“[Sullivan] I’m getting

Answer 33

…better”

Question 34

“Easy to think his destiny was

Answer 34

…marked from the start”

Question 35

“The feeling of belonging is

Answer 35

…a vanity…especially for a Jew”

Question 36

“the world went

Answer 36

…on no matter what was happening around you”

Question 37

“death was out there

Answer 37

…it had chosen Sullivan”

Question 38

“To love a place, to imagine yourself

Answer 38

…belonging there was a lie”

Question 39

“Here they were not a worry or a burden

Answer 39

…to make their mothers sigh with weariness”

Question 40

“Ida wanted to go

Answer 40

…straight back on the ship”

Question 41

“Rule was that nothing was

Answer 41

…ever too much for her”

Question 42

‘The sight of her thick

Answer 42

…golden brown hair somehow gave him hope”