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The dream house
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THE DREAM HOUSE - QUOTES
Fishing incident:
➔ Looksmart claims that “[his] mind is blank.”
➔ Patricia’s memory of the event causes her to become doubtful and “[wonder] if
she might have imagined it.”
➔ She “gave [him] a rock to smack its head.”
➔ Patricia “[likes] to live with her head buried deep in the earth.”
➔ Looksmart felt as though he was subordinate, as “her toy monkey with a battery
up its arse.”
➔ Looksmart believed that Patricia “was always so good at telling others to face up
to the truth, yet she could never see what was standing right in front of her.”
Clay animals:
➔ Looksmart explains that “[he] was so proud when [she] put them up there” but
“then one day, they were gone.”
➔ Looksmart “felt like [he] meant something” to Patricia, but ultimately, “[he] did
not.”
Grace’s death:
➔ Patricia believes that it is not worth exploring the past as “it does not amount to
much in the end.”
➔ “She is always for the joke, Patricia, the thing to laugh at, the thing to steer her
gaze away from the unbearable present.”
➔ Accepts that Richard was “taunting the dog.”
➔ Looksmart wants Patricia “to remember [the] dog like [he remembers] the dog
and [he wants her] to be haunted and - and decayed away by it!”
➔ Looksmart says that “perhaps a crick in the neck is exactly what the doctor
orders.”
➔ Looksmart “saw it as murder” and “cannot forgive” her for viewing Grace as “less
than human.”
➔ Her saying this was a “small fact on which he would build his hate.”
➔ Patricia calls Grace’s death a “sorry affair.”
➔ Grace is called “the girl from the dairy who died.”
➔ Patricia acknowledges that “maybe [she] got it wrong.”
➔ Grace’s death allows him to “witness the resurgence of his hatred and her fear.”
➔ Before Dwaleni, he was never able to “separate” his “love and [his] fear” which
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