Here are 10 quotes for you, if you’re studying Tessa Hadley’s Bad Dreams and Other Stories for VCE English or VCE EAL!
(These quotes are from the first short story, ‘An Abduction’.)
‘It prised its way each morning like a chisel through the crack between Jane’s flowered bedroom curtains and between the eyelids she squeezed tightly shut in an effort to stay inside her dreams.’
‘They had decided that they needed to find girls to crown the day.’
‘On a whim, she had decided against shorts that morning; she was wearing a washed-out old dress in flowered cotton, with a Peter Pan collar.’
‘The boys seemed unsure for a moment what to do next; Jane knew from observing her mother that it was her role to fill awkward silences.’
‘If Jane had been older, she might have taken the opportunity to parade her femininity in the kitchen, but it didn’t occur to her.’
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‘Her experience in the strange bed that afternoon hadn’t been joyous; that being some swooning, obliterating pleasure in the preliminaries, but then too much anxiety in the clumsy arrangements which she had known (from her biology lessons) would follow.’
‘And so she kept vigil faithfully for hours in the quiet of the night, presiding over the mystery of her changed life’
‘Her early initiation stayed in a sealed compartment in her thoughts and seemed to have no effects, no consequences.’
‘Jane confessed that she had always felt as if she were on the wrong side of a barrier, cutting her off from the real life she was meant to be living.’
‘It isn’t only that the drink and the drugs made him forget. He’s had too much happiness in his life since, Too much experience; he’s lost that fine-tuning that could hold on…It’s all just gone’
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