Quotes from the changeling by robin jenkins?

Answer 1

"The splendour and beauty of the great beast would have been extinguished."

"a product of the environment"

"Never to whine; to accept all what came; to wait for better; to let no one in, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were: these were the principles by which he lived"

"Here he was arrived in his kingdom, where regret, humiliation, mercenaries and failure did not exist"

"If there is to be salvation, there must be sacrifice and risk

"Tom knew very well, perhaps better than Forbes himself, what was meant by letting his heart thaw, against his wish, threatening his whole carefully built up system of self-sufficiency."

"She began to realize that this armour, of calmness and patience, forged in the dreadful slum where he had been born, must be heavy and painful to wear"

" "it's me: Tom Forbes" "…Tom Forbes? Who's he?" "

"When he glanced at Peerie's face, with its nose flattened like an apes, it was as if all Donaldson's Court waited outside the window"

"As Tom ran he felt that what he was hurrying towards kept receding."

"As soon as his mother had begun to speak, in a whimpering tone of entreaty, he had with his right fist struck the tree several times"

"Charlies hands were clumsy with nervousness and guilt. He had already suspected that by bringing Tom to Towellan he has, inexplicable, done the boy more harm than good; now this self inflicted injury was no doubt the outward sign of harm"

"The shepherd's hut for her was a destination; but for him it could only be another place in which to try and solve what could never be solved"