PAST:
Character Quote
Mary “I want to remember only the happy part of the past”
“Her face lights up with a charming, shy embarrassment. Suddenly and
startingly one sees in her face the girl she had been, not a ghost of the dead,
but still a living part of her”
“None of us can help things life has done to us. (...) Everything comes
between you and what you want to be, and you’ve lost your true self
forever”
“He can’t help being what the past had made him. Any more than your
father can. Or you. Or I.”
“I was so healthy before Edmund was born. There wasn’t a nerve in my
body”
“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too. We all try to lie out of
that but life won’t let us”
“Except that one day long ago I found I could no longer call my soul my
own”
Tyrone “It was in those days I learned to be a miser. A dollar was worth so much
then. And once you’ve learned a lesson, it’s hard to unlearn it”
“I he’d been brought up in a real home, I’m sure he would’ve been
different” (Mary on Tyrone)
Jamie Jamie “knows the game backwards”, suggesting this has occurred on
Character Quote
Mary “I want to remember only the happy part of the past”
“Her face lights up with a charming, shy embarrassment. Suddenly and
startingly one sees in her face the girl she had been, not a ghost of the dead,
but still a living part of her”
“None of us can help things life has done to us. (...) Everything comes
between you and what you want to be, and you’ve lost your true self
forever”
“He can’t help being what the past had made him. Any more than your
father can. Or you. Or I.”
“I was so healthy before Edmund was born. There wasn’t a nerve in my
body”
“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too. We all try to lie out of
that but life won’t let us”
“Except that one day long ago I found I could no longer call my soul my
own”
Tyrone “It was in those days I learned to be a miser. A dollar was worth so much
then. And once you’ve learned a lesson, it’s hard to unlearn it”
“I he’d been brought up in a real home, I’m sure he would’ve been
different” (Mary on Tyrone)
Jamie Jamie “knows the game backwards”, suggesting this has occurred on
