HMT and TCOM Quotes

• TCOM

  lack of hope"without hope for a future he becomes a beast"

  "a dying species"
• TCOM

  hope for future"so it begins again"

  ""if its a boy, he'll be the future of a new race"

  "He'll be our best hope"

  "the hope of the world"
• THT

  hope"I need to believe it"

  "Moira was our fantasy"
• THT

  hope for future"I am the vehicle for her hope"

  "sacred vessels"

  "Give me children, or else I die"
• THT

  lack of hope"a rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze"
• TCOM

  violence"last human being to be born killed"

  "They burn, they kill"

  "struck her viciously on the side of the head"
• THT

  violence"women were not protected then"

  "cattle prods"

  "they used steel cables"

  "afterwards she could not walk for a week"

  "salvaging" "Particution"

  "he has become an it"
• THT


  Power"raise like a throne behind the other"

  "i feel buried"

  "when power is scarce, a little of it is tempting" (epilogue)
• TCOM

  power"the warden can do them with one signature"

  "whoever speaks, the voice is the voice of Xan's"

  "absolute power, absolute authority, absolute control; and he was that man's cousin"

  "the Warden's diktat"

  "replace on dictatorship with the other"

  "good god theo, do you realise what power is in our hands?"

  "Theo held up the ring, then deliberately placed it on his finger"
• THT

  religion"give me children or else I die" (epigraph)

  "FAITH"

  "the Bible is kept locked up"

  "Blessed are the meek, blessed are the silent"

  "soul scrolls"

  "The eyes of god run all over the earth"
• TCOM

  religion"western science has been our god"

  "Rosie McClure, the evangelist, is in town"

  "fragmented" church

  "this way heaven can control the intake"

  "the five fishes"

  "Luke as the miracle worker"

  "come again, ye chidren of men"

  "he made on the child's forehead the sign of the cross"
• fear

  THT"bodies hanging"

  "fear is a powerful stimulant"

  "friendships were suspicious"

  "we were careful to exchange no more than an ordinary greeting"
• fear

  TCOM"The beginning of the end"

  "freedom from fear"

  "it wasn't only the SS or the Grenadiers people needed to fear"
• surveillance

  TCOM"perpetual surveillance"

  "loitered"

  "strong doors and locks"

  "patrolling the coast"

  "SSP"
• surveillance


  THT"she is my spy as I am hers"

  "perhaps it was a test. perhaps he is an eye"

  "under his eye"
• individual freedom/restriction

  THT"already we were losing our taste for freedom"

  "Moira was our fantasy"

  "maybe she has withdrawn from him, maybe that is her version of freedom"

  "This is freedom" (salvaging)

  "freedom to and freedom from"

  "freedom, like everything else, is relative"
• individual freedom/restriction


  TCOM"all are free; this is part of the Warden's promised pleasure"

  "theo thought of it as a task, not a pleasure"

  "giving people a choice in matters where choice was unimportant"

  "London was full of eyes"
• Identity

  THT"identify with your body"

  "what's your real name?"

  "we are no longer single"

  "doubled, I walked the street"

  "by we she means me"

  "what we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be fulfilled"

  "Obliterate me, make me fruitful. Mortify my flesh, that I may be multiplied"
• Identity

  TCOM"i am entitled"

  "quasi-mothers"

  "whoever speaks, the voice is the voice of Xan's"

  "I have never known what it is to love"

  "hunted creatures"

  "he'll be out best hope. The hope of the world"

  "the child of a wh*re"
• ritual

  TCOM"an attempt to improve order and purpose in the shapelessness of existence"

  "people need their rights of passage"

  "the diary which had become a routine part of his life"

  "saying their prayers. They do everyday"

  "whirling dance"
• ritual

  THT"Aunt Lydia"

  "the accepted greeting"

  "the rules were never spelled out, but every human knew"

  "here comes our bedtime story"

  "The Ceremony"

  "We have ceremonies of our own, private ones."

  "tonight Serena has me serviced"

  "The Commander, too, is doing his duty"
• strength


  THT"where I am is not a prison but a privilege"

  "ignoring isn't the same as ignorance"

  "she likes to keep him waiting"

  "I knew it was wrong"

  "I pray"

  "he calls me by my real name"
• strength

  TCOM"we want something done about the Sojourners"

  "what we want is real democracy"

  "we can die as human beings, not as devils"

  "julian is pregnant"

  "i was there at the end. No i shall be there at the beginning"

  "I shan't leave you ever. Whatever happens, we shall be together"