King Lear Quotes Analysis

“I have learned that when you loved somebody you will address him or her by different names.” Pg. 6

“We lived and died by nature and followed the whims of the timeless clouds.” Pg. 7

“On my twelfth birthday I got a new shiny new 16-gauge smelling richly of oil, and the next time we went into the woods I wasted a whole box of shells out of sheer exuberance, and Skip thought I had gone insane.” Pg. 29

“How my contemporaries and I hated the Japanese soldiers,
Who priced off fingernails, sawed off eyelashes with razors,
And bayoneted babies. We loathed the Germans also, but
Slightly less so, because they looked like us.” Pg. 35

“Out in the street people of all ages and colors were picking up the unbroken bottles and running away with them.” Pg. 61

62

“You will have to take me at my word, however, that
His favorite among all the sports was baseball. How did
I know this? Because I knew my dog very well and it had
To do with the look in his eye when he was around baseball,
And also with that particular time and place.” Pg. 73

“I hated Peewee for a month and secretly wished him dead,
Not only because he took on new airs but because I wanted
Those scraps of paper with their magic characters.” Pg. 74

“The playing field was at least two miles from our house,
And how he even knew about the game I will never,
Comprehend, except for his almost psychic propensity, previously cited, for fathoming where in the various venues of the town I might approximately be at any particular
Moment.” Pg. 79

“Then, standing on my utmost tiptoes, I peered across the top of the fence as he walked slowly through the cotton field beyond, halted once and looked back at me with a betrayed and wounded countenance,