Who said me? What do I mean? What do I show?
QUOTE“she was one of those children possessed by a desire to have the world just so” / WHO/CONTEXT / WHAT
“Her effective status as an only child, as well as the relative isolation of the Talis house kept her from girlish intringues with friends; no one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know”
At this stage in her life Briony inhabited an ill-defined transitional space between the nursery and adult worlds which she crossed and recrossed unpredictably”.
“Whatever humble nursing she did…she would never undo the damage. She was unforgivable”
“busy, priggish, conceited little girl”
“I’m very sorry for the terrible things I have done”
“It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all”
“There was our crime – Lola’s, Marshall’s, mine”
“I know it was him. Yes I saw him. I saw him”
“Sex maniac”
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“Not that they awarded degrees to women anyway” / WHO/CONTEXT / WHAT
“It was a perfect leg, pale, smooth, small enough to be a child’s…It seemed to be on display for their benefit…the two corporals made a dismissive sound of disgust…they refused to be drawn in”
He was thinking about the indifference with which men could lob shells into a landscape…they need never see the end result…It was an industrial process”
“Whatever humble nursing she did…she would never undo the damage. She was unforgivable”
“She thought how one of these men might be Robbie, how she would dress his wounds…how he would turn to her with gratitude and forgive her”
“Robbie Turner died of septicaemia at Bray Dunes on 1 June 1940…Cecilia was killed in September of the same year by the bomb that destroyed Balham Underground”
Cambridge had changed her fundamentally…no one in her family noticed the transformation in her and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations”
“There was a two inch scratch from the corner of Marshall’s eye, running parallel to his nose”
“Jack’s little hobby”
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“Nothing good will come of it”