AQA English literature paper 1 quote recall

Mrs. Johnstone on her financial struggles/life choices:

"Living on the Never Never."

Narrator on the twins' fate:

"There's a joker in the pack."

Mrs. Lyons’ lie to Mrs. Johnstone about the twins’ curse:

"They say that if either twin learns that he was once one of a pair, then both will immediately die."

Mickey expressing his childhood boredom:

"Mam, I'm bored. I'm bored."

Edward's desire for the truth about his parentage:

"I don't care who tells him, just tell him."

Mickey's lament about his life compared to Edward's at the end:

"I could have been him!"

Mrs. Johnstone to Edward, acknowledging what could have been:

"You never had the chance to be my son."

Narrator on the inevitability of fate/death:

"And who'd dare tell the lambs in spring, about the reaper in the summer?"

Edward's innocent question to Mickey, highlighting their bond:

"Will you be my best friend?"

Mrs. Lyons' desperate attempt to sever ties with Mrs. Johnstone:

"Don't you ever come here again!"

Juliet on Romeo's name meaning nothing:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."

Romeo's first impression of Juliet:

"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night."

Friar Laurence on the suddenness of their love:

"These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume."

Mercutio's dying curse:

"A plague o' both your houses!"

Juliet expressing her impatience for the wedding night:

"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds."

Romeo's defiance of fate upon hearing of Juliet's death:

"I defy you, stars!"

Nurse on sorrow for Juliet's 'death':

"O woeful, woeful, woeful day!"

Lord Capulet's reaction to Juliet's refusal to marry Paris:

"Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!"

Romeo on the beauty of Juliet in death:

"Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."