Wednesday, 4 November 2009

The cone gatherers quotes page 1 & 2

Callum - " The scent of the tree seemed to strengthen with the darkness until Callum fancied he was resting in the heart of an enormous flower"

"He stroked the branches and to his gentle hand they were as soft as petals"

"He became an owl himself, he rose and fanned his wings, flew close to the ground then swooped to rise again with vole or shrew squeaking in his talons, part bird, part man he suffered in the inelecutable predicament of necessary pain and death"

Neil - "gazed at the great house with a calm yet bitter intentness and anticipation, as if, having put a spell on it, he was waiting for it to change"

" Yet neil did not give the word to go down. It was not zeal to fill the bags that made him linger, for he had given up gathering. He just sat, motionless and silent."

Duror - " A destroyer had steamed seawords"
"sailor singing"
"sudden and swifter than hawks"
"aeroplanes had shot down from the sky"

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