English - Scottish Set Text

• “Not a red rose or a satin heart”
• “I give you an onion”
• “It is a moon wrapped in brown paper”
• ”It promises light”
• “Like the careful undressing of love”
• “Here.” - short declaration
• “It will blind you with tears”
• ”Like a lover”
• “It will make your reflection

  a wobbling photo of grief.”
• “I am trying to be truthful”
• “Not a cute card or a kissogram”
• “Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,”
• “Possessive and faithful”
• “As we are,

  for as long as we are”
• “Take it”
• “Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring, if you like”
• “Lethal.” - Isolated
• “Its scent will cling to your fingers,

  cling to your knife”
• The themes of ’Valentine’ are:

  • Love
  • Commitment
  • Relationships
• “You could travel up the Blue Nile with your fingers”
• “Chanted” - children are under a ‘spell’
• “Tana, Ethiopia, Khartoum, Aswan”
• “That for an hour”
• “Skittle of milk”
• “And chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust”
• “a long pole”
• “laugh of a bell swung by a running child”
• “This was better than home.”
• “Enthralling books.”
• “The classroom glowed like a sweetshop. Sugar paper. Coloured shapes.”
• “Brady and Hindley faded, like a faint uneasy smudge of a mistake.”
• “Mrs Tilscher loved you.”
• “Some mornings, you found she’d left a good gold star by your name.”
• “The scent of a pencil, slowly, carefully, shaved.”
• “A xylophone’s nonsense”
• “Over the Easter term”
• “the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks.”
• ”dunce” - Time setting (someone not clever)
• “a line of kids”
• “jumping and croaking”