Norman Quotes
11 quotes
"[about his dead grandmother] She's in the living room."
"THE DEAD ARE COMING!"
"I didn't ask to be born this way."
"Everyone in the real world thinks I'm a freak, and you know what? Maybe they're right! Maybe I am a freak, but I never asked for your help... just go! GET OUT!"
"[telling Aggie's ghost the story about her] Once upon a time, long ago, there was a little girl. (Aggie: What?) A little girl who was different… Who was different from the other people in her village. (Aggie: I'm not listening!) She could see and do things that no one could understand, and that made them scared of her. (Aggie: I don't like this story!) She turned away from everyone, and became sad and lonely, and had no one to turn to! (Aggie: STOP IT!) The more she turned away from people, the more scared they were of her. And they did something terrible! They became so scared that they took her away and they killed her! (Aggie: NO!) But even though she was dead, something in her came back. (Aggie: STOP!) And this part of her, wouldn't go away. Not for 300 years! (Aggie: SHUT UP!) And the longer it stayed, the less there was of the little girl."
"[while confronting Aggie's ghost] They did something awful, but, that doesn't mean you should too! All that's left of you now is mean and horrible! (Aggie: That's not true!)"
"It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these new countries, where both English and French are intertwined again, it is as if English were bathing itself in the fountain of its own youth, and as if French were remembering the buried treasures it had thought forgotten."
"He leaned his head against the rock. Christ, when was the last time he’d seen the humor in life? And now, of all places, in an enemy camp, with a strange woman who made him burn. Burn with desire. Burn with need. A desire and need not only for her and her body, but for something he couldn’t quite name."
"She straightened and crossed her arms. “I can’t sleep with you,” she blurted.… “As you please.”“As you please?” She stepped back, the rough wood of the bench bumping her upper calf. She’d braced herself for a battle and now felt oddly deflated. “You aren’t going to try to talk me into it?”“I need not talk women into lying with me."
"Ah, cariad, finally I have you to myself, with a bed behind me, and what do I do?"
"She needed a distraction. “Was that your mother?” The splashing stopped. “Are you going to converse while I bathe?” “Why not?” “Feels rather unseemly.” She laughed, picturing him sitting there, shocked and indignant. “We’re supposed to be married, right?” “You have a point, however I would rather not discuss her right now.” “I think you’re evading me.”“Mayhap. Is it working?"