All the quotes you need to tackle 'The Dream House' in English Home Language Paper 2 for the IEB. 80+ quotations on characters and themes compiled by a 91% average English student.
• “Beau-ty!” “The girl”
• “mismatch”
• “Backward glances only crick the neck”
• “Looked very much like yourself”
• “The past doesn’t amount to much”
• “It was the police’s job – to wonder about that” “sorry affair” “Loaded”
• “You were like the sun”
o “But after a while I came to think of you as another dead child”
• “At least – that is how she remembers it” > L “If I remember myself correctly…would have”
• “She can see him wanting to placate her” - roses
o “She likes him for his lies far better than she likes him for his truths”
• “Everything would be as it was again – even though nothing ever would be”
o “Looksmart’s way of looking at him will be…her way of looking at him”
• “She isn’t about to leave her child alone on the hill”
Beauty
• “The problem of what to do with the past would have to carry on in the future”
• “Mangled chicken wire cage”
• “Perhaps the only real justice in the world is the one you make for yourself”
• “Knowledge inside her eyes”
• “She is afraid of too much truth spilling out”
• “Even her fury is discreet”
• “Looksmart is like a boy in his heart he will not be able to hear a thing like that”
• “You must find the truth for yourself”
• “Death, his suffering”
Looksmart
• “He told himself he would be coming here out of hate”
• “Still calling the girl like she’s one of her dogs”
• “Her toy monkey with a battery up its arse”
• “Like a performer for the stage”
• “To remain on the farm was to condone what had happened there”
• “Who died or was killed”
• “Grace was in another category” “she was slightly less than human”
• “It undid every single one of Patricia’s acts of kindness”
• “The car always gleamed in a way that excluded him”
• “Protect her seats”
• “I want for you guilt, darkness!”
• “And every holiday I came home to sleep on my mud hut!”
• “I don’t think I fitted in anywhere”
• “But that relationship – it can have no place on the future of this country”
• “It stares back” (Ethunzini) - double beast love and fear can be separated
• “The gaps that Looksmart carried away inside him, not even knowing they were there”
• “Was probably far more at home in that suit” – owns future
• “Power lies with those who withhold their information from others”
• “A wound, descending into him like a deep well” (L past grief and memories)
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