NLMG General Quotes Flashcards
(22 cards)
“Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?”
“There was a fence […] with two lines of barbed wire […] All along the fence all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled” / “Then we came to a barbed wire fence” “with us there for support, she seemed to lose her fear of the fence”
“Norfolk came to be a real source of comfort for us”
“You get terrible accidents sometimes”
“We’re modelled from trash”
“‘It can’t be good’ Tommy said, ‘completing at the second donation’”
“I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them. I suppose I lost Hailsham too”
“After all, it’s what we’re supposed to be doing, isn’t it?”
“She was shaking. Shaking with rage”
“I started wondering if maybe it was all feasible; if one day we might all of us move into a place like that and carry on our lives together”
“You’ve been told and not told”
“There were powerful tides tugging us apart” “The current’s too strong. You’ve got to let go, drift apart”
“If we’d understood that back then - who knows? - maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another”
“all separated now but somehow still linked by the place we’d come from”
“I kept worrying that one of the strings would come unravelled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky”
“Your art will display your souls!”
“He carried on his work in a remote part o Scotland, where I suppose he thought he’d attract less attention”
“He’d taken his research much further than anyone before him, far beyond legal boundaries”
“dream future” “proper place to work” “possible self” “open-plan office” “self-contained world” “we all know it. We’re modelled from trash. Junkies, prostitutes, winos, tramps” / “that’s what we come from”
“mad animal” “flinging his limbs about” “Tommy’s figure, raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out” “soul”
“tried to run to him, but the mud sucked my feet down” “for his flailing arms and [holding] on tight” even as he “tried to shake me off”
“it’s a shame Kath” “trying to hold onto each other” “but they’ve got to let go”
