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QUOTES

Pg 26 Narration of Lester and Oriel:

‘Lester and Oriel Lamb are Godfearing people.’

‘Let your light so shine.’

‘Lester Lamb polices like her farms, always a little behind the moment.

He’d quit the force if only his wife’d let him. Around toen he known as ‘lest

We Forget’ and if he knew, it’d break his Anzac heart.’

QUOTES

Pg 26 Narration of Lester and Oriel:

‘Lester and Oriel Lamb are Godfearing people.’

‘Let your light so shine.’

‘Lester Lamb polices like her farms, always a little behind the moment.

He’d quit the force if only his wife’d let him. Around toen he known as ‘lest

We Forget’ and if he knew, it’d break his Anzac heart.’

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Pg. 27‘They call him Quick because he is as unquick as his father.’

“He was a fairskinned, mlenacholy boy, slim

and a little cagey around the ribs but robust in his own way.” Narrative, about

Quick Lamb, pg 137

“Sam whistled and the couple laughed, but

Lester went prickly with embarrassment” page 100

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-“The

river. Remember, wherever the river goes every living creature which swarms

will live, and there will be many fish, for this water goes there, that the

waters of the sea will become fresh; so everything will live where the river

goes.” Narrator→Fish

P179

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“Your time will come, Fish, you’ll have a second of knowing, a man for a

moment, and then it won’t matter because you’ll be me, free to come and go,

free to puzzle and long and love, free of the net of time.” Narrator→Fish

P179

Quick and Oriel:

““Jesus, I hate this family stuff. It

makes me sick! I don’t need all this.”

“It’s all we

have.”

“What?”

“Each other.”” Pg. 267

Quick to Oriel: ““Let’s face it, Mum,” he said,

suddenly reckless with courage, “you do everything better than anybody. It’s just that you’re flaming bossy.”” Pg.

269

“They kept clear of

Cloudstreet, though at night Quick often lay awake thinking about it.” Page

328, Narrator about Quick.

“Fish Lamb clumps the piano,

but all that comes from it is the thick unending drone of middle C and he’s not

pleased. He knows the sound of his own music, and this is not it.” Narrator

about Fish, page 335

It does you good to be tenants. It

reminds you of your won true position in the world... A house should be a

home, a privilege, not a possession. It's foolish to get attached.

Oriel to Sam. Page

410

You might say I've come to love this

awful old house. It was here for us when we had nothin.

Oriel to Sam. Page

410

Lookit the water! The water! Fish

yells. Lookthewater! Ah Hurry, Quick . The water.

Fish to Quick.

Page 415

And a hesitation, a pause for a few

moments. I'm a man for that long, I feel my manhood, I recognise myself

whole and human, know my story for just that long, long enough to see how

we've come, how we've all battled in the same corridor that time makes for

us, and I'm Fish Lamb for those seconds it takes to die, as long as it

takes to drink the river, a long as it took to tell you all this, and then

walls are tipping and I burst into the moon, sun and stars of who I really

am. Being Fish Lamb. Perfectly. Always. Everyplace. Me.

Page 424

Pg. 10 Narration of Oriel

‘She was a simple, clean, gloomy woman, much younger than her husband.’

“Lester, he

doesn’t see me” – Oriel Lamb to Lester Lamb", Page 66

“He’s retarded.

It’s like he’s three. We had to potty train him again, start from scratch” –

Oriel Lamb to the Doctor, page 67

“My father

remarried after my mother died. His new wife already had a boy” – Oriel to

Quick (71)

“When I got burnt one day in a bushfire, in

1910, he killed his last pig, and took out its bladder and put it on my legs to

heal the blisters. A whole beast, just so I wouldn’t scar. Not only it was his

last pig, it was the last living thing on his farm but me” – Oriel to Quick

(72)

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“I’m similar and you

know it. I’m an old fool and I don’t care at all. I just wish I knew what to

believe in.” Lester Lamb. (pg.229)

“Families

aren’t things you believe in, they’re things you work with.” Oriel Lamb.

(pg.232)

Oriel had lost

power over him long ago, a defeat that you could read in her face every time

fish came shambling by.’ (Quick thinking about Fish, pg 299)

“‘Go home, says

the black man. This isn’t your home. Go home to your home, mate...Go home.’

(Black man to Quick) Quick turns. Already he’s alone.” Page 362

Lester Lamb

Oriel Lamb

Quick Lamb

Fish Lamb