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The Dream House Theme Quotes English Home Language , ISBN: 9781770104891
A full list of quotes for different themes from the novel, The Dream House, by Craig Higginson.
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Dogs “like she’s calling one of her dogs” … “Beau-ty!”Mist “She draws back the curtains to reveal the mist”
“the rain has thickened … everything is blurred with it.”
“Through the mist”
“clearer moments”
“Everything is lost in the rain, everything is lost”
“the air too thick to see in, the farm lying in ruin”
“surrounded by mist”
“the mist hasn’t cleared”
“smeared opaque”
“a fresh wave of mist”
“the rain is falling”
“the rain is finished”
Landscape “a war zone”
“rubble”
“levelled”
“The landscape is still lost in the mist”
Language “English lessons”
“Whenever she’s alone with uBaas she speaks in isiZulu.”
“Even his language, he is pleased to discover, is slipping away from him”
“reverted to isiZulu”
“for them, English remains the language of lies and liars”
“Power lies with those who withhold their information from others”
“he undo the chain – and the dog running”
“when he walked away once again with the Zulu prize”
Names “that is not my name”
“Looksmart? That is only the name they gave in order to please you”
“the real name of Grace was Noma”
“But I think you knew me once as Looksmart”
“It is a name. Like Baas is a name”
Red and blood “drained of its redness”
“then he feels the same familiar ache in his blood”
“too flagrant a red for Patricia’s taste”
“the red fishing rod”
“small red light flashing with urgency”
“Yesterday’s blood: that is what is running through her body”
“without any blood”
“scarlet with their intermingled blood”
The TRC “Apologise? But – I don’t think I did”
“there are no consequences to people’s actions”
“nothing that needs to be undone has yet been done”
“I want you to understand”
“I think I owe you an apology” (Patricia)
“Your apology is all I’m interested in hearing” (LS)
“the only real justice in the world is the one you make for yourself”
South Africa “they have started to appear out of place”
“backward glances only crick the neck”
“The problem of what to do with the past would have to carry on in the future”
“he is an intruder in his own land”
“uBaas feels like the visitor, the intruder”
“but the past doesn’t amount to much in the end, does it?”
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