quotes

• 'Wispy little man' describing Mr Maudsley
• 'Only cads wear their school clothes in the holiday's. It isn't done'
• 'I was first conscious of my wings' Leo after Norwich and he has a new outfit
• 'she seemed to be saying good-bye to someone'
• 'I feel quite another person' Leo
• 'I rebelled strongly against it. Why should we call ourselves sinners?
• 'Wild rush through the air, so near to flying' Leo at Ted's farm
• 'Could you take a letter for me?'
• 'Hello there's Mercury'
• 'The word struck me like a blow' Leo learning about spooning
• 'It was like trained soldiers fighting natives' link to Boer war, at cricket match scene
• 'She couldn't trust herself to speak'
• 'Her eyes were bright, her cheeks were flushed and her lips trembled'
• 'That I wanted the other side to win'
• 'If it wasn't for the difference, what a handsome pair they'd make'
• 'Nothing is ever a lady's fault' Trimingham
• 'Hawk-like' Marian
• Marian turned from a ''fairy princess'' to an 'ugly duckling swan''
• 'You are green yourself, it is your true colour' 'green, green, green'
• 'That's for her to say. It isn't what I want, but what she wants' Ted speaking about going to war
• 'Marian why don't you marry Ted?'
• 'Her lips trembled, and she burst into tears'
• 'I couldn't, I couldn't. she wailed' Marian discussing Ted going to war
• 'Into the unhallowed darkness, where it lurked'
• 'Together on the ground, the virgin and the watercarrier, two bodies like one'
• 'I'm going to look for her. Leo, you know where she is: you shall show me the way'
• 'Ted Burgess had gone home and shot himself'
• ''You flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched'' older Leo addressing younger Leo's failures. In Greek Mythology Leo resembles Icarus, he was warned not to fly too close to sun and he did causing beeswax to melt his wings and he drowned in the sea. Young Leo involved himself too much in Marian and Ted's affair and became traumatised
• 'Our love was a beautiful thing, wasn't it' Marian in end reminiscing
• 'nineteen hundred, nineteen hundred, I would chant to myself in rapture' Leo anticipating the 'golden age', ignorance to foreshadowing events
• 'his blood and brains stuck to the kitchen wall' Ted haunted by the visions of Ted
• Marian says her and Ted weren't 'ordinary lovers'
• Marian says if Ted 'had more brains he wouldn't have blown them out'
• prologue


  'the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there'
• prologue


  'I was between twelve and thirteen, and I wanted to think of myself as a man'
• prologue 


  'It had lost it's magic by being violated'
• prologue 


  'you flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched'
• chapter one


  'heat was my enemy'
• chapter two

  'She always seemed to take up more space than was necessary to her, and he less' speaking of Mr and Mrs Maudsley
• chapter two 


  'My sister is very beautiful'