Nicole Renard quotes

• Who was I going to tell? My mother and father? It would have killed them.
• Sometimes I can think of Frenchtown without the shivers
• I saw Nicole Renard for the first time in seventh grade at St Jude's Parochial School during arithmetic
• Pale purity
• Pledged her my love and loyalty forever
• A hermit
• Don't fall off, Francis
• She looked our way and waved
• Didn't come out of the house except for the five-thirty morning mass
• White porcelain
• I'd like to help more in the war
• Good luck, Francis
• Such a big world out there
• As a volunteer now with the Monument Red Cross, she was preparing food kits for servicemen that day and she said she would join us in time for Larry LaSalle's arrival
• A patter of feet
• "Isn't that beautiful? " Nicole said, pointing to a woman in a simple white gown
• Dancing in the dark
• Whimpering like a small animal caught and trapped
• Her hair dishevelled
• You didn't do anything
• Drew back a step
• I don't recognize her
• Her hair is cut short
• Her cheek bones are more prominent
• Her eyes seem bigger
• I look at her as if studying a painting in a museum
• Her voice is sharp and brittle
• I'm sorry about... What I did to you that day
• Stumbled

  Can barely walk after the assault because he was so rough. Has been through so much she can only just stand
• Smiling encouragement