Passing Quotes Flashcards
(16 cards)
Clare wealth
Purple ink
Foreign paper of extraordinary size
Past
Pale small girl sitting on a ragged blue sofa
Chicago
Wafted up on a magic carpet to another world
“ ivory of her skin” “ ivory mask “
Shade too provocative
Husky voice held a dubious note
Clare attractiveness
Shade too good looking
Passing
It’s even worth the price
Rather dangerous and abhorrent thing
Negro eyes
Bellew
The black scrimy devils
Hello nig
The letter
Tore the letter into tiny ragged squares
Brian’s wish to leave
“ strenuous efforts to repress “
“ rush off to that remote place of his hearts desire “
Don’t expect me to give up everything
Irene Q over race
“ bound to her by those very ties of race
“ been unable to sever “
“ Clare kendry cared nothing for the race. She only belonged to it
“ bound and suffocated her”
Irene appearances
Standing before the mirror
Brian argument
There’s a difference you know
Unqualified assertion
Irene didn’t like changes, particularly that affected the smooth routine
It’ll keep him from disappointments later on
Passing risk
Being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world
Hugh
“ Superior race “
“ Unusually dark one “
Dance
Trick of sliding down ivory lids
Turning on a caressing smile
Shattered cup , white fragments
Irene wants clar egone
If Clare should die! The thought stayed with her. She could not get rid of it
Her death
She could have Clare kendry cast aside by bellew. She couldn’t have her free
Like a beast in agony
