Important Quotations Explained
1 Gavin: “Do
you believe that someone out of the past, someone dead, can enter
and take possession of a living being?”
2.
Pop
Leibel: “He [Carlotta’s lover] threw her
away. Men could do that in those days. They had the power and the freedom.”
3.
Scottie: “What
are you thinking about?”
Madeleine:
“Of
all the people who were born and died while the trees went on living.”
Scottie: “Their
true name is
Sequoia sempervirens—always green,
ever living.”
Madeleine: “I don’t like it . . . knowing
I have to die.”
4.
Judy: “If
I let you change me, will that do it? If I do what you tell me,
will you love me?”
Scottie: “Yes—yes.”
Judy: “Alright then,
I’ll do it. I don’t care anymore about me.”
5.
Scottie: “He
made you over just like I made you over—only better. Not only the
clothes and the hair, but the looks and the manners and the words
. . . And then what did he do? Did he train you? Did he rehearse
you? Did he tell you exactly what to do and what to say?”
