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=MR. PIP QUOTE EXAM=

You will be required to know who said the quote and how the quote connects a major theme of the book.

Sample Quotes
"Characters migrate." (Umberto Eco, epigraph)

“But for reasons we couldn’t think of he wore the red nose on certain days.” (p. 1)

"Bougainville is one of the most fertile places on earth. Drop a seed in the soil and three months later it is a plant with shiny green leaves." (p. 14)

"This is Mr. Dickens...—if you get a chance, why don't you ask him how to fix the generator." (p. 19)

"When you read the work of a great writer, you are making the acquaintance of that person." (p. 21)

"I had found a new friend." (p. 23)

"We had our minds and we had our memories....and that's all we needed." (p. 27)

"When the missionaries came, we were taught to have faith in God. But when we asked to see God the missionaries refused to introduce us." (p. 43)

"I knew that orphaned white kid..." (p. 47)

"I have memories...No blimmin' use..." (p. 55)

"I had learned to enter the soul of another." (p. 58)

"...we may not know the whole world, we can, if we are clever enough, make it new..." (p. 60)

"Women were never allowed to go to sea—ever! Why not? I will tell you why, even though it is obvious to the thickest tree trunk." (p. 65)

"You gain as you lose, and vice versa." (p. 69)

"It's hard to be a perfect human being." (p. 71)

"I knew the name of every character in Great Expectations because I heard them speak." (p. 75)

"As quickly as she had won us she lost us. And she didn't know why? It was as if she didn't listen to herself." (p. 79)

“If everything we did made sense, the world would be a different place. Life would be less interesting don’t you think?” (pg. 92)

"We still would have another country to flee to." (p. 93)

"What's it like to be white?" (p. 93)

"I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape." (p. 120)

"We have lost our possessions and many of us our homes. But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and this is our minds and imaginations." (p. 123)

"No one in the history of your short lives has used the same voice as you with which to say your name. This is yours. Your special gift that no one can take from you." (p. 123)

"I caught a glimpse of someone called Dolores, who was her own person, and not just someone's mother." (p. 137)

"We did not know anymore whether she was black or white. There." (p. 145)

"We were after something bigger. We were trying to get ourselves another life." (p. 147)

"Opportunity. Chance. The window opens and the bird flies out." (p. 149)

"It gave me permission to change my life." (p. 155)

“My name is Pip.” (p.161)

“I could not make up my mind whether this was spectacularly daring or complete foolishness.” (p. 162)

“I am happy to oblige but I have two conditions. One, I do not want to be interrupted. Two, my story will take several nights. Seven nights in total." (pg. 164)

“Between us, me and Grace had created a new world.” (pg. 171)

"The question was simple enough. Who are you?” (p.174)

“They agreed to gather their worlds side by side, and leave it up to their daughter to pick and choose what she wanted.” (p.179)

“When we asked for the meaning of Joe’s observations Mr. Watts replied that we didn’t need to know. If the blacksmith didn’t make sense, that was the point.” (pg. 181)

“Above all, he said, white is a feeling.” (pg. 182)

“What would you rather do? Sit with your feet dangling off the end of the wharf or have them shoved inside stiff leather shoes?” (pg. 184)

“We know the devil because we know ourselves. And how do we know God? We know God because we know ourselves.” (pg. 191)

“As an extra precaution she wrapped the dream around a small stone she carried in her pocket.” (Pg. 193)

‘'This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling." (pg. 202)

"It gave me a friend in Pip. It taught me you can slip under the skin of another just as easily as your own, even when that skin is white and belongs to a boy alive in Dickens’ England. Now, if that isn’t an act of magic than I don’t know what is." (pg. 231)

“Mr. Dickens had taught every one of us kids that our voice was special, and we should remember this whenever we used it, and remember that whatever else happened to us in our lives our voice could not be taken from us.” (pg. 256)