This boy's life QUOTES Flashcards
Transformation
“I was caught up in my mothers freedom,, her delight in her freedom, her dream of transformation
Family
“I imagined being adopted by different people I saw on the street”
“I was tempted by the idea of belonging to a conventional family”
Home
“Mrs Taylor had filled the house with pictures of him”
Lies and deceit
“My father had left them to me, I said. ‘After he died”
Guilt and blame
” I was subject to fits of feeling unworthy, somehow deeply at fault”
“I was a thief. By my own estimation, a master thief”
“One night he kissed me, or I kissed him, or we kissed each other…we turned on each other”
Power and powerlessness
“I sometimes had to but my lip to keep from laughing in the ecstasy of my power over them”
“She needed me and to be needed made me feel capable”
Masculinity
“I wanted to call myself jack, after jack London”
“I thought Roy was what a man should be”
“I needed that rifle, for itself and for the way it completed me when I held it”
“I treated her swinishly”
Rules and order
“My mother had faith in me. She didn’t have faith in discipline”
Dreams
“To seek status seemed the most natural thing in the world for me”
“Chuck held onto his dream as if it were already actual. He was even prepared to go to prison for it”
Representing the human heart
“The human heart is a dark forest”
Salmon
“They came all the way from the ocean to spawn here”…“and then they would die”…“they were already dying”
Nuts
“Hushe and pluck
Pen pal Alice
Experiences with “Mountain lions, rattlesnakes and packs of coyotes”
Violence
The Winchester made him “feel like a sniper”
“I needed that rifle” “for the way it completed me when I held it”
