Streetcar Quotes: Blanche's Past Flashcards

(15 cards)

1
Q

I was on the

A

verge of - lunacy

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2
Q

The long parade

A

to the graveyard

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3
Q

Funerals are pretty

A

compared to deaths

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4
Q

The Grim Reaper had put

A

up his tent on our doorstep

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5
Q

She’s been through

A

such an ordeal

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6
Q

I’m not young and

A

vulnerable anymore

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7
Q

It was storm - all storm, and I

A

was - caught in the centre

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8
Q

I made the discovery - love

A

All at once and much, much too completely

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9
Q

Blanche didn’t just love him

A

but worshipped the ground he stood on

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10
Q

For the last year or two

A

she has been washed up like poison

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11
Q

Candles burn out in little boys’ and girls’

A

eyes, or wind blows them out

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12
Q

Nobody was tender and

A

trusting as she was

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13
Q

But people like you

A

abused her, and forced her to change

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14
Q

Intimacies with strangers was all

A

I seemed to be able to fill my empty heart with

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15
Q

The paddy wagon would

A

gather them up like daisies

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