Tim Winton Quotes

Question 1

Forest Winter

Answer 1

winter had closed in

Question 2

Forest Winter fell

Answer 2

before everything fell apart

Question 3

Forrest Winter misery

Answer 3

catatonic from misery

Question 4

Forest Winter family

Answer 4

Young Man and his wife and child

Question 5

Forrest Winter happy

Answer 5

how long had it been since they were happy?

Question 6

Forest Winter panic

Answer 6

He felt panic

Question 7

Forest Winter optomistic

Answer 7

he sharpened the teeth of the chainsaw and prepared to go out into the day

Question 8

NMC sandunes

Answer 8

up-slough, down-trough, from shadow, to light

Question 9

NMC 1. same

Answer 9

summers go by but the boy knows everything stays the same

Question 10

NMC after divorce

Answer 10

the boy comes home to an empty house

Question 11

NMC remembers

Answer 11

he remembers everything

Question 12

NMC swears

Answer 12

he swears things are the same

Question 13

NMC buildings

Answer 13

someone will stop it he knows they will

Question 14

NMC fear of change

Answer 14

wakes up with a hard ball of panic in his stomach

Question 15

NMC ghost

Answer 15

full of ghostly sensations like those he’d always associated with amputees

Question 16

NMC heart

Answer 16

his heart contracted

Question 17

NMC blood

Answer 17

blood

Question 18

NMC role

Answer 18

Nilsam was a father. He was a husband. He was a son

Question 19

NMC afraid

Answer 19

He was not afraid

Question 20

WWDAWFD world

Answer 20

come out into the world again

Question 21

WWDAWFD mother

Answer 21

was convinced… her mother was… stupid or sick

Question 22

WWDAWFD land

Answer 22

all a person needs is a bit of land

Question 23

WWDAWFD men

Answer 23

men hate us, they hate our bodies

Question 24

WWDAWFD engine

Answer 24

be an engine

Question 25

WWDAWFD watch

Answer 25

she'd left her watch on... it had stopped

Question 26

WWDAWFD carcase

Answer 26

carcase of a small birf

Question 27

WWDAWFD drowning

Answer 27

broken/ to stop her drowning me

Question 28

WWDAWFD live

Answer 28

life. Survive they're the same thing... no difference

Question 29

MOT

Answer 29

Minimum before parole of two

Question 30

MOT dead

Answer 30

dead tone/ghost/waiting to die

Question 31

MOT Greta

Answer 31

Greta changed

Question 32

MOT affection

Answer 32

affection for me seemed to dry up

Question 33

MOT starving

Answer 33

starving to death

Question 34

MOT kill

Answer 34

i decided to kill Fred Blakey

Question 35

MOT men

Answer 35

We were men. I would have done the same

Question 36

MOT nails

Answer 36

straight as nails in bed/ Greta was no longer strong

Question 37

MOT security

Answer 37

flattened herself against me

Question 38

MOT stain

Answer 38

The stain of his big white body on me

Question 39

MOT final

Answer 39

I knew that i had lost my life. I was a dead man

Question 40

Distant Lands alone

Answer 40

relieved when her parents... left the shop to her

Question 41

Distant Lands man

Answer 41

Nescafe hands/ they understood one another

Question 42

Distant lands panic

Answer 42

Lunch without a visit... sent a gallop of panic

Question 43

Distant lands greyhound

Answer 43

the greyhound was pulling away empty

Question 44

Distant Lands $50

Answer 44

the fifty dollar note was starchy new

Question 45

Laps growing

Answer 45

They've been growing and i've gone to fat

Question 46

Laps weight

Answer 46

There's a weight to lose

Question 47

Laps screw

Answer 47

a place can't screw you forever

Question 48

Laps seven years

Answer 48

Seven years had healed them in a way they had not expected

Question 49

Laps queenie afraid

Answer 49

queenie laughted and was afraid/ Nothing's changed we have

Question 50

Strong one survived

Answer 50

Survived something to become Rachel

Question 51

Strong one nilsams

Answer 51

She'd come to love the Nilsams

Question 52

Strong one followed

Answer 52

i reckon its time you followed me for a while

Question 53

Strong one Jerra

Answer 53

Jerra was stiff and hard with surviving

Question 54

More heart

Answer 54

his heart wont ease up/ everything is not alright

Question 55

More misery

Answer 55

your misery is contagious

Question 56

More response to affair

Answer 56

it happens Jerra

Question 57

More strong

Answer 57

she seemed to have grown stronger

Question 58

More protect

Answer 58

Desire to serve, to protect, to be loyal until death

Question 59

More old

Answer 59

I just want to get older/ Jerra took the lead

Question 60

More better

Answer 60

Be better not bitter

Question 61

More living

Answer 61

I'm not dying i'm living