Bad dreams quotes

An Abduction transformation:

1. "it had never occurred to her until now that the masculine could be so intimately important, in relation to herself"

2. "transplanted out of her familiar world, she seemed to find it easier to be dignified, as if she were moving inside a different skin, sleeker"

The Stain transformation:

1. "my fathers not an easy man, and he's grown very fond of you"

Experience transformation:

1. "The wardrobes full of her clothes stood in for her ... each outfit a performance in itself."

2. "I felt as if I were a little girl playing in my mother's clothes"

3. "I saw that his seduction, if it came, would be like this ... I was ready to submit to it."

4. "Disguised, I was able to perform a part"

Bad Dreams transformation

1. "It seemed so completely a found thing, alien and unanticipated"

2. "she couldn't dispel the taint of it"

3. "for the first time, the child felt as if she were alone in her own home"

4. "and she wanted in a sudden passion to break something, to disrupt this world of her home"

Under the Sign of the Moon transformation:

1. "he might be one of those chameleons, changing his coloration to match wherever he was."

An Abduction innocence to experience:

1. "She wasn't plain in that moment, although she didn't know it"

2. "Or she should be more thoroughly embarked on her teenage self"

3. "She was so virgin"

4. "feeding beer to a puppy"

5. "the next day her period came rather copiously and early - which ought to have been a relief but wasn't, because it hadn't occurred to her until then that she could be pregnant"

Deeds Not Words innocence to experience:

1. "what she shyly called 'intimate relations'."

2. "she had dreaded that this body would bloom and fade under her clothes without any man ever knowing it"

One Saturday Morning innocence to experience:

1. "Piano wasn't the answer she'd hoped for, to what was unsolved in herself"

2. "Basking invisibly at the edge of all the talk"

3. "Her parents' friends might play significant roles in her imagination, but left alone with them she had nothing to offer."

Experience innocence to experience:

1. "I've never lived, I thought"

2. "I felt as if I were a little girl playing in my mother's clothes"

3. "I saw that his seduction, if it came, would be like this ... I was ready to submit to it."

4. "I could hear myself sounding carefree and flirtatious."

Bad Dreams innocence to experience:

1. "She should have been a painter, she thought in a flash of anger, not a housewife and a dressmaker."

2. "the idea of her 'ripe old age' was full of horror: wasn't she just a girl, with everything ahead of her"

The Stain gender:

1. "marina knew that she was unsophisticated"

Deeds Not Words gender:

1. "Edith had no place in the sacred scene, contaminating it"

2. "He wouldn't talk much about his wife, just said she was invalid"

1. "She was haunted by the perils of their situation".

One Saturday Morning gender:

1. "her mother was afraid of Dom Smith, too... with his loss and his hunger for consolation

Experience gender:

1. "I saw that his seduction, if it came, would be like this ... I was ready to submit to it."

2. "I've never lived, I thought"

3. 'I felt as if I were a little girl playing in my mother's clothes

Bad Dreams gender:

1. "The world of Swallows and Amazons existed in a dimension parallel to their own"

2. "Susan lived to a ripe old age. Susan was the dullest of the Swallows, tame and sensible, in charge of cooking and housekeeping. Still, the idea of her 'ripe old age' was full of horror: wasn't she just a girl with everything ahead of her?"

3. "She should have been a painter, she thought in a flash of anger, not a housewife and a dressmaker."

4. "but the strong dread it had left behind didn't subside with the confusion of waking"

Flight ge der:

1. "Susan thought there was something monstrous in Claire's selfishness."

Under The Sign of the Moon gender:

1. most of her feelings, over these past months, had been muted, as if she were persisting through grim effort."

2. "-How come your title doesn't change...and mine does? You're still man, but I'm wife? Why don't you call yourself husband? Her feminism in those days consisted mostly of these niggling technicalities."

An Abduction relationships:

1. "Jane Allsop was abducted when she was fifteen, and nobody noticed"

2. "it wasn't acceptable in Jane's kind of family to complain about good weather"

3. "her mother said it was a crime to stay indoors while the sun shone"

4. "Jane admired her mother greatly"

5. "it was part of the family code that sport and physical exercise were meaningful ways of passing leisure time; without them, you risked dissipation, letting value slip away"

6. "Stupid girl"

7. "The wings of her spirit, which had been beginning to soar, faltered and flung her to earth"

The Stain relationships:

1. "Marina needed the money"

2. "He was never like that with us"

3. "After all those years apart, father and daughter were almost strangers to each other"

Bad Dream relationships:

1. "When she was younger she had called to her mother if she woke in the night"

2. "And she was afraid, anyway, that her mother wouldn't understand the awfulness of the dream"

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Flight relationships:

1. "This quarrel shadowed all Claire's relations with her family at home: it was now time to dispel the shadows."

2. "Susan thought there was something monstrous in Claire's selfishness."

3. "Then Claire spent a long time looking for a silk scarf for Susan ... as if this choice were the problem, rather than anything between them in the past."

4. "Susan thought there was something monstrous in Claire's selfishness."

Her Share of Sorrow relationships:

1. "She looked like a challenging in that family"

2. "There's nothing for me to do in this house"

3. "they tried the attic door, but found that she had locked it and hidden the key"

4. "They had hollowed out the best thing she'd ever done"

An Abduction nonlinear growing up:

1. "the next day her period came rather copiously and early - which ought to have been a relief but wasn't, because it hadn't occurred to her until then that she could be pregnant"

The Stain nonlinear growing up:

1. "the solicitors said it was unusual but not unprecedented"

2. "She saw that he was depressed because he was bored"

3. "He got angry with his broken body, how it betrayed him"

4. "Discouraged and disappointed in himself"

5. "marina knew that she was unsophisticated"

Experience nonlinear growing up:

1. "I came across the key accidentally"

Bad Dreams nonlinear growing up:

1. "Susan lived to a ripe old age. Susan was the dullest of the Swallows, tame and sensible, in charge of cooking and housekeeping. Still, the idea of her 'ripe old age' was full of horror: wasn't she just a girl with everything ahead of her?"

2. "She should have been a painter, she thought in a flash of anger, not a housewife and a dressmaker."

3. "her domestication of the free life he'd once had?"

Silk Brocade nonlinear growing up:

1. "Sally had always known that the white brocade had belonged to a lady who died before her wedding."