TGA QUOTES Flashcards
“He felt it was the weak spot…
…the broken part which let polio in”
“Polio is like love…
…years later when you think you have recovered it comes back”
“The babyishness
…of this place”
“Why does the poet say
…he learnt everything he knows there?”
“Coffins you lived in
…the worst thing polio could do to you next to death”
“Most of Franks relatives had died during the war…
…but he never felt their loss”
“her stories grew up with him, they were intertwined with his past
…part of him like the food she prepared”
“There was an air of disapproval about her
…Meyer was left with a sense of expulsion”
“ghosts
…of his past”
“with a practiced movement
…Meyer blinked and turned his head”
“Suddenly he felt
…an urge to see Frank”
“Buried in the earth
…which my father learned to love”
“Budapest was the glamorous love of his life who betrayed him
…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”
“[Budapest] Had become
…a game of chance”
“Taken
…from her”
“Won’t be
…needing it”
“[Sally] She had been
…in a bad mood”
“New
…Australian”
“All been
…messages”
“Who had so quickly acquired an accent like the other kids, so carefully adapted his clothes to look like theirs
…was now always going to stand out”
“are we getting better
…or is this just a reprieve”
“Her stomach ached it hurt to urinate
…her gums had shrunk”
“Because if [Meyer] didn’t have a hat in the freezing
…mountains of Ukraine…she didn’t want to wear one”
“Gutted,
…feeble, shellshocked”
“The past seems
…far away”
“The ghost like
…memory of confinement and helplessness”
“They take the
…weak ones first”
“Near universal rejection
…refusal, contempt”
“Love was instantaneous
…like inspiration”
“mystery
…and glamour”
“less bright to him
…older and sadder”
“Given his
…vocation; poet”
“[Sullivan] I’m getting
…better”
“Easy to think his destiny was
…marked from the start”
“The feeling of belonging is
…a vanity…especially for a Jew”
“the world went
…on no matter what was happening around you”
“death was out there
…it had chosen Sullivan”
“To love a place, to imagine yourself
…belonging there was a lie”
“Here they were not a worry or a burden
…to make their mothers sigh with weariness”
“Ida wanted to go
…straight back on the ship”
“Rule was that nothing was
…ever too much for her”
‘The sight of her thick
…golden brown hair somehow gave him hope”
