Quotes for Flames by Robbie Arnott
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“his private school manners were paved over by something that had cracked”
private, manners, paved, cracked
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“this herd of wombats \[being\] the closest thing to family \[he\] might ever know”
herd, wombats, family, know
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“message of acknowledgement… or friendship”
message, friendship
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“the worst mistake of his long life”
mistake, his, life
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“know \[humans\] love and pain and hate and joy”
\[humans\], pain, joy
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“a huge sense of responsibility”
sense, responsibility
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“spine-straight”
spine
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“always so controlled”
always, controlled
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“concentrating in a singular, precise kind of way”
concentrating, singular, precise, way
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“to a simple being of flame and hunger”
simple, flame, hunger
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“the landscape that had re-spawned them”
landscape, respawned,
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“the more Charlotte struggled the more I worried;”
Charlotte, struggle, worried
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“I started looking for a coffin,”
looking, coffin
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“I swore to bury her whole and still and cold.”
swore, bury, whole, cold
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“Levi is filled with confidence and a renewed sense of purpose".”
Levi, confidence, purpose
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“Levi is not well. Levi is not realising; he could have just spoken to her.”
Levi, not well, realising, spoken
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“In a mind like his, grand acts will always trump honest words.”
mind, his, grand acts, honest words
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“An epiphany might have dawned upon him: What am I doing? Is she even worried about her eventual death?”
epiphany, dawned, doing, eventual death
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“From his right eye a drop of fire descended, globular and hot, straight into the gurgling mouth of his daughter”
right eye, drop, fire, globular, straight, gurgling, daughter
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"tears were flames, and they were coming from within Charlotte”
tears, flames, within, Charlotte
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“I need to stay calm so my flames don’t spark”
need, calm, flames, spark
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“If I am to leave Nicola, I need to control them without her touch.”
leave, nicola, control them, w/out, touch
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“He does not look healthy.”
he, not, healthy
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“his hair, usually so neat, is long and knotted”
hair, neat, knotted
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“There is no recognition in his eyes”
no, recognition, eyes
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“And she took with her the most human parts of him.”
took, her, human parts, him
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“When his son started unravelling, he intervened with only half his flaming heart.”
unravelling, intervened, half, flaming, heart
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“He was born in the instant a woman… smacked two stones together.”
born, instant , woman, smacked, stones
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“controlling fireworks, \[and\] shape-shifting”
fireworks, shape-shifting
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"As powerful as a wombat“
Powerful, wombat
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"Insipid wombats”
Insipid
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“monstrous cormorant… glorious cormorant”
monstrous, glorious
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“An epiphany might have dawned upon him… But this chance was destroyed the moment Levi picked the… pelt from Hough’s… fingers.”
epiphany, dawned, chance, destroyed, pelt, fingers
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“my thoughts were clearer”
thoughts, clearer
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“But it wasn’t just the pelt; even before then… my memories were murky”
wasn’t, pelt, before, memories, murky