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Clash of Cultures Quotes

- "He was the same as the ants or the flies, a hazard of the place that had to be dealt with".

- "The two streams of words rushed together like a sea meeting a river, pouring over each other hard and muddled".

- "The blacks were frequently committing their outrages and depredations".

- "They're savages, Dick. We're civilised folk, we don't go round naked".

Social Hierarchy Quotes:

- "Her family was a notch up from the Thornhills".

- "The highest things were the steeples".

- Scabby Bill was "lower in the order of things even than they were".

Settlement was Unnatural & Should Not Have Happened Quotes:

- "Forcing himself against the river".

- The forest "closed behind him as smoothly as a curtain".

- "The forest had never revealed dinner to Thornhill".

- The Aboriginal people "treated the place as if it was their own".

Ownership quotes

- "There were no signs that the blacks felt the place belonged to them".

- "The thought of his place seemed to have allowed him to forget Smasher".

- "It was a piercing hunger in his guts: to own it".

- "To say mine in a way he had never been able to say mine of anything at all".

Will’s guilt / insecurity quotes

- “Each time, it was a new emptiness”.

-”No men had work harder than he had done”.

-”For knowing he was a king, as he would only be ever be king in that place”.

-”William Thornhill, convict, hiding under the skin of William Thornhill, landowner”.
-”This me, he(jack) said. My place. He smoothed the dirt with his palm so it left a patch like the scar on his head.”

Allusions in the book

-”William Thornhill, Adam in Paradise, breathing deep of the air of his own new-coined world”. (Genesis)

-”He had wash his hands and face clean in the river.”