Cuckoos nest - book - quotes Flashcards
“While Mcmurphy laughs….at the captain back at the pier…
and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”
“ There’s something strange about a place…..
where the men won’t let themselves loose and laugh, something strange about the way they all knuckle down under that smiling flour-faced old mother.”
“He looked at Mc Murphy and got no look back….
and went down the line of Acutes looking for help. Each time they looked away and refused to back him up, and the panic on his face doubled.”
“By the time they got a screwdriver….
and undid the grate and brought Cheswick up, with the grate still clutched by his chubby pink and blue fingers, he was drowned.”
“The poor miserable misunderstood boy….
killed himself. He’s there now, in the doctor’s chair, with his throat cut.”
“ What worries me billy…
is how your poor mother is going to take this….Mrs Bibbit has always been so proud of your discretion.” - Nurse Ratched.
