The Cone Gatherers Flashcards
(40 cards)
“We’re human…
…beings just like them.”
Chapter 1
“hated these cones, which…
…kept them prisoner in the wood just as the snare held the rabbit.”
Chapter 1
“alert and…
…beautiful with trust”
Chapter 1
“an icy…
…sweat of hatred”
Chapter 1
“his stronghold…
…and sanctuary”
Chapter 1
“fortify his…
…sanity and hope”
Chapter 1
“been repelled by…
…anything living that had an imperfection or deformity or lack.”
Chapter 1
“the silent tribulation of the past twenty years, an accumulated…
…horror, which the arrival of these cone-gatherers seemed at last about to let loose.”
Chapter 1
“Therefore what Duror heard was a roaring…
…within him, as if that tree of hatred and revulsion was being tossed by a gale.”
Chapter 1
“Duror was alone…
…in his obsession.”
Chapter 1
“looked at them…
…as heroes”
Chapter 1
“shy, honest,…
…hard-working, respectable men.”
Chapter 1
“never cease to…
…torment him.”
Chapter 1
“Duror’s voice was as stripped…
…of emotion as a winter tree.”
Chapter 2
“his smile faded:…
…a profound bleakness took its place.”
“The sweetness of her youth…
…still haunting amidst the great wobbling masses of pallid fat that composed her face and added to her grotesqueness”
Chapter 2
“he should envy so misbegotten…
…and godforsaken an imbecile as the humpback was surely the ultimate horror, madness itself?”
Chapter 2
“It was a morning that seemed…
…to beguile the mind with reflections of a time of innocence before evil and unhappiness were born.”
Chapter 3
“weak in body and…
….complicated in mind.”
Chapter 3
“It doesn’t occur to her…
….I might be empty of affection altogether”
Chapter 3
“the contradiction between her…
…emulsion of Christ and her eminence as a baronet’s wife.”
Chapter 4
“resolution to torment the…
…cone-gatherers and destroy them.”
Chapter 4
“Calum could not concentrate…
…on the cones. He became like an animal in danger with no way of escape.”
Chapter 5
“The trees are more precious…
…than we are.”
Chapter 5
