Cone Gatherers By Robin Jenkins Quotes

Answer 1

“It was a good tree by the sea-Loch” page 1

Answer 2

“the mansion behind it’s private fence of giant silver firs” page 1

Answer 3

“gazed at the great house with a calm yet bitter intentness and anticipation as if […] he was waiting for it to change” page 1-2

Answer 4

“in it he was as indigenous as squirrel or bird” page 2

Answer 5

“chaffinches fluttered round him […] his sunburnt face was […] beautiful with trust” page 2

Answer 6

“we’re human beings just like them”-Neil page 4

Answer 7

“demoralized as always by hatred” page 7

Answer 8

“in a icy sweat of hatred, with his gun aimed […] at the feebleminded hunchback” page 11

Answer 9

“the noose of disgust and despair” page 11

Answer 10

“repelled by anything living that had an imperfection or deformity or lack” page 13

Answer 11

“those two sub-humans” page 16

Answer 12

“god knew, how many inhibitions, repressions, and complexes were twisting and coiling there like the snakes, of damnation” page 20

Answer 13

“a struggle between her Christian sympathy for the weak-minded hunchback and her pride as a patrician” page 59

Answer 14

“it astonished Duror that she, so genuinely good should be helping him in his plan of evil” page 60

Answer 15

“he was like a tree […] still showing green leaves but underground death was creeping along the roots” page 71

Answer 16

“screaming sympathy (Calum), berserk joy (Duror), cut its throat savagely (Duror)” page 85-86

Answer 17

“we didn’t treat them fairly”-Roderick page 111

Answer 18

“he felt in a mood for murder, rape, or suicide” page 127