We have always lived in the castle quotes Flashcards
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- “We are so happy”- Merricat
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- “We rarely moved things; the Blackwoods were never much of a family for restlessness and stirring” – Merricat (Conservitism-> patriarchy / class)
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- “The people of the village have always hated us”- Merricat
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- I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon.- merricat
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- I can’t help it when people are frightened, I always want to frighten them more.- merricat
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- We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it. - merricat
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- I’m going to put death in all their food and watch them die.-merricat
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- I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.
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- looking into their flat grey faces with hating eyes. Merricat on villagers
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- I wished they were all dead-merricat
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- Get the safe out of the study downstairs. -charles
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- Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea?
Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep?
Down in the boneyard ten feet deep! – village kids
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- “I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four,” he said, patting his hands together. “I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie.” – uncle julian (Number 44 is a biblican reference to transformation and restoration)
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- “A great child of twelve, sent to bed without her supper. But she need not concern us.”
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- “Mary Katherine, we love you.”
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- “Mary Katherine must never be punished. Must never be sent to bed without her dinner. Mary Katherine will never allow herself to do anything inviting punishment.”
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- “Bow all your heads to our adored Mary Katherine.”
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- Charle’s fire
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- I could feel a breath of air on my cheek; it came from the sky I could see, but it smelled of smoke and ruin.** Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.**
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- Punish me? You mean send me to bed without my dinner?
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- “It’s spring, you’re young, you’re lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world.- helen Clarke
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- The world is full of terrible people.”
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- When they had finished putting out Charles’ fire I would take Constance back inside and we could start to clean our house again.- merricat
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We should have faced the world and lived normal lives- constance
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I must be kinder to uncle julian
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let it burn
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Man could get rich, farming the Blackwood
land.
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“As a matter of fact,” he said, “come about a month from now, I wonder
who will still be here? You,” he said, “or me?”
