Cate Kennedy
- Flexion quotes AKA making a typing test to help me memorise quotes for my English exam
His voice like a bad phone connection, a robot, between locked teeth - sees him swallow and close his eyes instead of shouting at her - realises just how bad it must be - every emotion he's withheld from her for the last eighteen years - boiling and writhing across his face now. It's as if the locked strongbox inside has burst open and everything in there is rippling free and exorcised to the surface.
Cate Kennedy
- Flexion quotes AKA making a typing test to help me memorise quotes for my English exam
Frank Slovak had overturned his tractor onto himself. Not dead, they said, but might as well be. His wife found him, they went on, pausing to let their listener visualise this. Everyone had imagined, sometimes, making that crazed run across the paddocks, faint with whimpering dread, the air sickeningly still over your head like the eye of a storm. Yeah his wife, they said finally, nodding. The quiet one.
Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mother and Son 2 - North and South
He said to himself that he hated Margaret, but a wild, sharp sensation of love cleft his dull, thunderous feeling like lightning, even as he shaped the words expressive of hatred. His greatest comfort was in hugging his torment; and in feeling, as he had indeed said to her, that though she might despise him, condemn him, treat him with her proud sovereign indifference... She could not make him change. He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mother and Son 1 - North and South
When Mr. Thornton had left the house that morning he was almost blinded by his baffled passion. He was dizzy as if Margaret, instead of looking, and speaking, and moving like a tender graceful woman, had been a sturdy fish-wife, and given him a sound blow with her fists.
