quotes for in cold blood Flashcards
(18 cards)
Quote number 1? (Dewey)
Solving the crime was a personal proposition for him
Quote number 2? (Perry)
I’m a normal
Quote number 3? (Perrys family)
Jimmy a suicide, Fern out the window, My mother dead
Quote number 4? (Perrys mother)
Always drunk and never in a fit state to provide for us
Quote number 5? (Perrys sister)
He loathed her
Quote number 6? (Perry talking to his sister)
Every damn one of you got an education, but not me
Quote number 7? (Dicks father)
An outstanding athlete- always on the first team at school…a good student too, with A grade marks in several subjects
Quote number 8? (Dicks father describing him again)
He wanted to go to college too, but we couldn’t do it. Plain didn’t have the money. Never had any money
Quote number 9? (Dicks mother)
a heart as big as a barn
Quote number 10? (Perrys sisters house)
White picket fence
Quote number 11? (Perrys sister)
Middle income, middle class
Quote number 12? (Dick)
Envy was constantly with him, the enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or had anything he wanted to have
Quote number 13? (Describing how Perry feels about Dick)
The sound of Dicks voice was like an injection of some potent narcotic
Quote number 14? (Dick about Perry)
He was like a wife that must be got rid of
Quote number 15? (Perry about Mr C)
I didn’t want to harm the man, I thought he was a nice gentleman… right up to the moment I cut his throat
Quote number 16? (Perry about Dick)
The glory of having at his mercy, that’s what excited him
Quote number 17? (Perry at the Clutters home)
I thought of that goddamn dollar. Silver dollar. The shame. Disgust.
Quote number 18? (Dewey about Perry)
Perry Smiths life had been no bed of roses but pitiful, a long lonely progress from one mirage to another
