Literature · 2022

"The old Squire is portrayed as an implacable man; he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger had subsided, as fiery volcanic matters cool and harden into rock."

"I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer."

Use the excerpt below to answer questions 4 and 5:
"Oshor; … winds howl forth – howl forth, hold back – is it the time, oh endless time – slug in oblivion – make mincemeat of your prey."

"… those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience … months of twiddling my thumbs with insecurity. In search of my true people. But wherever I went, I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people. Perhaps I was on the wrong planet. In the wrong skin."

"If I can fasten but one cup upon him, with that which he hath drunk tonight already, he'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress's dog."

"That is why we must accept the universal dome, because there is no direction. The bridge is the dome of religion, and a bridge doesn't just go from here to there; a bridge also faces backwards."

"It was January, and Monday, I began to understand. After every weekend, my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching; during the Christmas vacation he became slack, and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul, he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter."

"… fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern …"

"I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learnt Heathcliff had treated him."

"How could you have done this to us? After all, we have friends who, though they may be living in slums like this, still live apart from this type of people."