Reading Quotes
Wider Reading Quotes!
Train spotting- Irvine Welsh • “felt strange telling the truth” • “nervous silence at this strange moronic comment” • “They looked at him as if they hadn’t done anything illegal in their lives” • “amazing…how things like sex and Hibs were nothing to him when he was on smack, suddenly became all important” • “He felt his skeleton and central nervous system briefly rip out of his skin” • “mother superior, sick boy, Rents”
Still I Rise – Maya Angelou • “You may trod me in the very dirt” • “Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells” • “Did you want to see me broken?” • “Weakened by my soulful cries” • “Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines” • “like air I’ll rise” • “Does it come as a surprise” • “I’m a black ocean leaping and wide” • “I’m the dream and the hope of a slave”
Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou • “the fellows stand or fall down on their knees” • “the fire in my eyes” • “the joy in my feet” • “my inner mystery” • “I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman that’s me”
Things fall apart – Chinua Achebe • “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” • “Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.” • “He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.” • “But he says that our customs are bad; and our own brothers who have taken up his religion also say that our customs are bad.” • “Okonkwo ruled his house with a heavy hand” • “his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness” • “he still remembered how he had suffered”
Oranges are not the only fruit – Jeanette Winterson • “she had never heard of mixed feelings” • “I had been brought in to join her in a tag match against the rest of the world” • “I loved the wrong sort of people” • “should have been a women that
Train spotting- Irvine Welsh • “felt strange telling the truth” • “nervous silence at this strange moronic comment” • “They looked at him as if they hadn’t done anything illegal in their lives” • “amazing…how things like sex and Hibs were nothing to him when he was on smack, suddenly became all important” • “He felt his skeleton and central nervous system briefly rip out of his skin” • “mother superior, sick boy, Rents”
Still I Rise – Maya Angelou • “You may trod me in the very dirt” • “Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells” • “Did you want to see me broken?” • “Weakened by my soulful cries” • “Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines” • “like air I’ll rise” • “Does it come as a surprise” • “I’m a black ocean leaping and wide” • “I’m the dream and the hope of a slave”
Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou • “the fellows stand or fall down on their knees” • “the fire in my eyes” • “the joy in my feet” • “my inner mystery” • “I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman that’s me”
Things fall apart – Chinua Achebe • “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” • “Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.” • “He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.” • “But he says that our customs are bad; and our own brothers who have taken up his religion also say that our customs are bad.” • “Okonkwo ruled his house with a heavy hand” • “his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness” • “he still remembered how he had suffered”
Oranges are not the only fruit – Jeanette Winterson • “she had never heard of mixed feelings” • “I had been brought in to join her in a tag match against the rest of the world” • “I loved the wrong sort of people” • “should have been a women that