Tomorrow, When the War Began Quotesheet

Chp 1
Chp 2
Chp 3
Suddenly we had so much energy it was as though we were on something. We nearly
decided to camp in the clearing, which was cool and shadowy, but the urge to explore
was too strong. (Exploration and discovery)
Chp 4
a V-shaped line of jets raced overhead, very low overhead. Then another, then another,
till six lines in all had stormed through the sky above me. Their noise, their speed, their
darkness frightened me (Fear)
There was a new atmosphere. The sweetness had gone; the sweet burning coldness
had been replaced by a new humidity. Wed thought that we were among the first
humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They
didnt have to walk into a place to invade it. (Revelation and self-discovery)
but for some reason it was getting on my nerves. I got up and went down the creek.
(fear)
He was like a brother. Being neighbours, wed grown up together. (relationships)
I love Fi. You know that. She seems so ... perfect sometimes. (relationships_
Guess she thinks Im just a big loudmouth, huh? he said at last. Yeah, I know. He
cleared his throat. Thats when I first ... when I realised ... Well, its the first time I really
took much notice of her. Since I was a little guy anyway. I always thought she was just a
stuck-up snob. But shes not. Shes really nice. Yeah, but you know, she lives in that
big house and she talks like Mrs Hamilton, and me and my family, I mean were just
Greek peasants to people like her. (Perception, view about ourselves)
So after a while we started believing him when he said he was too tough to have
emotions. It seemed funny that Fi, the most delicately built girl in our year, looked like
being the one to bring him undone, (relationships, perception)
But wild wasnt Hell. Wild was fascinating, difficult, wonderful. No place was Hell, no
place could be Hell. Its the people calling it Hell, thats the only thing that made it so.
It was the same with Homer, the way for all those years hed been hanging a big sign
around his neck, and like a fool Id kept reading it. [Animals] used their own brains,
their own judgement. No, Hell wasnt anything to do with places, Hell was all to do with
people. Maybe Hell was people. (revelation, discovery)
Chp 5
we could have long private conversations. We talked about boys and friends and school
and parents, all the usual stuff (Teenage life)
Robyn unexpectedly said, I dont want to go back. This is the best place and this has
been the best week. (Teenage reflection and emotions)
Next time we should have a proper search for where the hermit lived. Ellie said
(Curiosity)
But I still didnt sleep well. but the last few nights I just couldnt settle down to it. To my
own surprise I realised I was quite anxious to get home, to see how things were, to
make sure it was all OK. I did feel some kind of strange anxiety. Ellie said (Fear, Worry,
Anxiety)
But I couldnt force the others to go at my pace. I was affected by Robyn telling me just
that morning that I was bossy. I was a bit hurt by that, especially coming from Robyn,
who didnt normally say unkind things. (relationships and Awareness)
I dont know if I was happy that day those tense and edgy feelings were getting
stronger and stronger but I do know Ive never been happy since. Ellie said (Fear,
foreboding loom)

Chp 6
There was nothing. I felt a new kind of fear now; a kind of fear I hadnt even known
about before. Ellie (Fear)
Memories of a light-hearted conversation in Hell suddenly came back to me. And
suddenly I knew, and I hated and feared the memory. Lee climbed out of the car and
came walking towards me, heading for the front door. I screamed at him, Lee! Youre
wrong! Stop doing these things! Stop thinking these things! Youre wrong! Robyn came
up behind me and grabbed my arm. He probably is, she said. But the radio ... She
paused. Hold yourself together Ellie. Just till we know. (Fear and rational thinking)
Wed all started acting with unnatural calmness (Maturing)
With desperate urgency, passionate to convince them, I said, This is ridiculous. I know
what youre thinking, and it is completely absolutely impossible. Absolutely not
possible. These things just dont happen, not here, not in this country. (Optimism)
I knew I had to admit all the possibilities now. I remembered how tense things had been
before we left, all those politicians shouting and carrying on. (Rational thinkinh0
Robyn took over. Weve got to think, guys. I know we all want to rush off, but this is
one time we cant afford to give in to feelings. There could be a lot at stake here. Lives
even. Weve got to assume that something really bad is happening, something quite
evil. If were wrong, then we can laugh about it later, but weve got to assume that
theyre not down the pub or gone on a holiday. (Inspiration and calming down. Relaing.
Being mature)
Maybe all my mothers stories made me think of it before you guys. And like Robyn
said before, if were wrong, he was struggling to get the words out, his face twisting
like someone having a stroke, if were wrong you can laugh as long and loud as you
want. But for now, for now, lets say its true. Lets say weve been invaded. I think
there might be a war. (Realisation, survival)
Chp 7

But wed made a decision to play it safe and we stuck to it. (careful thinking)
Robyn had the bright idea that bicycles were quick and silent the perfect transport
(Quick-thinking and clever)
But Kevin, warned Lee, we might have to make some ugly choices. (Warning, Truth)
but we were starting to get more and more conscious of our own safety. (Awareness,
Safety, Self)
She had been so logical all evening, and she was still being logical, even though it was
her house that we would head for next. About Robyn (Rational thinking)
It was hard to force the food down our dry and chokedup throats, but we nagged and
nagged until everyone had eaten at least one sandwich, and it did make a difference to
our energy and morale. (Survival)
Danger just didnt seem real. We knew that if there was trouble, if there was danger, it
would be in town. (Survival)
I think I must have run out of tears after that day, because I havent cried again since
(Survival and hardening)
For the first time we acted like people in a war, like soldiers, like guerillas. (Survival)
Our fear was making us think (SurvivAL)
There was no question that we had to try to reach Fis house, and Lees. Not because
we expected to find anyone, but because five of us had seen our homes, had seen the
emptiness, had been given a chance to understand, and it was only fair that the last
two should get the same right. (Care, Value, Importance)

I still couldnt comprehend that this might be a matter of life and death, that this was
the most serious thing Id ever been involved in (Realisation)
Our lives had always been so unaffected by the outside world (Realisation)
Corrie gave a little cry. No! Thats being too logical! Youre my best friends! I dont
want to be that logical! Neither did I, when I thought about it. OK then, I said. All for
one and one for all. Lets go. The three musketeers. (Relationships, unity)

To come out of the darkness now would be to show courage of a type that Id never had
to show before, never even known about. I had to search my own mind and body to find
if there was a new part of me somewhere. If I could only find it I could connect with it
and then maybe, just maybe, I could start to defrost the fear that had frozen my body.
Maybe I could do this dangerous and terrible thing. (Courage, Questionng)\
I suddenly made myself leave the darkness and go to it, in four quick light steps, a
dance that surprised me, but made me feel a little light-headed and proud. Thats it! I
thought. Ive done it! It was a dance of courage. I felt then, and still feel now, that I was
transformed by those four steps. (Courage)
At that moment I stopped being an innocent rural teenager and started becoming
someone else, a more complicated and capable person, a force to be reckoned with
even, not just a polite obedient kid. (courage)
Despite all the evidence that wed had already, this was the first confirmation that an
enemy army was in our country, and in control It was unbelievable, horrible. I felt my
body fill with fear and anger. I wanted to yell at them to get out, and I wanted to run
away and hide. I couldnt take my eyes off them. (fear and Worry)
So, at last we knew. A coldness crept through me. I felt the goose bumps prickle on my
skin. This was the new reality of our lives. (Perception)
At that moment only a bullet could have separated me from those two people.
Suddenly theyd become my family. (relationships and self discovery)
I stopped the other two. I was horrified by how utterly terror-stricken they looked;
horrified because I knew I must look the same way. Their teeth and eyes gleamed at me
and their uncontrolled panting seemed to fill the night, like a demonic wind. My mind
was falling apart. All I could think of was how my arrogance in taking the lead, in being
so sure I knew my way, might cost us our lives. I wasnt yet sure if the others realised
how ignorant Id been. (Fear)
Everyone trusted people. That was one thing that was going to change forever (Trust
and relationship)
Before, two people had found it when they didnt want to. Now, when three of us
wanted to find it, none of us could. Two agonising minutes passed. I felt my skin go
colder and colder. It was like icy insects were crawling over it. At last I thought, This is
hopeless. Well have to give up. (Desperation)
Were dead, and its all my fault. (Desperation and worry)
We were struggling for breath now. My legs felt old and slow. They were really hurting. I
stopped and waited for Corrie, then we walked on together, holding hands. We couldnt
do any more, go any faster, or fight anyone else. (Desperation and survival)

Chp 8
I had pain in every part of me, first in the legs, but then in the chest, then the back, the
arms, the throat, the mouth. I burned, I felt sick, I ached. My head got lower and lower
(suffering and pain)
Gradually we got talking, and then we couldnt stop. As well as being tired we were so
wound up that the conversation became a battle of babbling voices, no one listening to
each other, till we were all shouting. (Disocrd)
It was too big a thing for me to get my mind around. When I thought of it baldly like
that: killed three people, I was so filled with horror. I felt that my life was permanently

damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a
shell. Ellie might walk and talk and eat and drink but the inside Ellie, her feelings, was
condemned to wither and die. (morality)
I felt guilty and ashamed about what had happened.
Dont feel so bad. This is war now, and normal rules dont apply. These people have
invaded our land, locked up our families. They caused your dogs to die, Ellie, and they
tried to kill you three. The Greek side of me understands these things. The moment
they left their country to come here they knew what they were doing. Theyre the ones
who tore up the rule book, not us. Homer says (Inspiration and Leadership)
And I remembered what hed said to comfort me (Leadership)
I reflected that the night theyd spent together had given Homer more confidence with
Fi. Hed found the style, the tone, to use with her. And she seemed to enjoy it. She
laughed at his jokes and there was more life and colour in her face when she looked at
him. She was losing the coolness shed had before. (Relationship)
Homer was becoming more surprising with every passing hour. It was getting hard to
remember that this fast-thinking guy, whod just spent fifteen minutes getting us
laughing and talking and feeling good again, wasnt even trusted to hand out the books
at school. (self-discovery and maturing)

Chp 9
Lives can be changed that quickly. In some ways we should have been used to change.
(Change and self-discovery)
Ellie, I just cant believe this is happening. Invasions only happen in other countries,
and on TV. Even if we survive this I know Ill never feel safe again. (Fear and Selfdiscovery)
Yes. Yes. The tea parties. And dressing the dolls up. Remember when we put lipstick on
them all? Then we lost interest. Mmm, it just faded away, didnt it? We grew up, I
guess. Other things came along, like boys. (Maturing and learning)
We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy. Now we know were not, and like
you said, well never feel safe again, and so its bye-bye innocence (Truth)
Maybe it happened because we were starting to recognise Homers leadership.
(Leadership and hidden talents)
Everythings a risk from now on Kev. Were not going to be safe anywhere, any time,
until this thing is over. All we can do is to keep calculating the odds. (Survival)
The biggest risk is to take no risk. Or to take crazy risks. (Survival)
That was Homers genius. He combined action with thought, and he planned ahead. He
sensed, I think, that inaction was our enemy. (Leadership)
If it lands I think weve only got two options. We can sneak out on the
opposite side to where its landed, and use the trees to try to get away into the bush.
The bikes are no use and the Toyotas out of reach. So wed be on foot and relying on
our brains and our fitness. The second option would be to surrender. There was a grim
and frightened silence. We had only one option really, as Homer knew. I dont want to
be a dead hero, I said. I think wed have to take our chances and surrender. (Survival)
Weve been lucky. We cant afford to make that many mistakes again (Survival )
Corrie gave a cry that Ill never forget, like a wounded bird (Fear)
Corrie would not move, and we could not move until she did. (Fear and relationships)
Chp 10
Wed been nervous while they were away; wed come to depend on each other so much
already. (Strong ties and relationships)
We were in the middle of a desperate struggle to stay alive, but here was I, still thinking
about boys and love. (teenagehood)
but truth to tell I was feeling more confident and relaxed. I always prefer action; Im
happier when Im doing things. Ive always found TV boring for instance; (Self
discovery)

how brave Robyn was that night. I dont want medals for her, and neither would she
well I dont know, I havent asked her, shed probably love it but I think she was a
bloody hero. She picked up the photocopier that sits on a stand near the lottery desk
and chucked the whole thing through the door. Then she ran to Lee, heaved him onto
her back, across her shoulders, and carried him through the shattered door, kicking out
bits of glass as she went. (Courage and bravery)
Ive given him two injections today. It was cool fun. Robyn! I nearly passed out myself,
in amazement. You faint when people even mention injections! Yes, I know, she said,
with her head on one side as though she were a botanist studying herself. Its funny,
isnt it? (Courage)
Maybe were going about this the wrong way. Yes? Well, were thinking of little quiet
sneaky things. We could go to the other extreme. Rock up in something so
indestructible that we didnt give a damn who saw or heard us. Robyn sat up. Such
as? I dont know, a bulldozer. (Courage and bravery)

Chp 11
My fear came from love. Love for my friends. I didnt want to let them down. If I did,
they would die. (Relationships)
Chp 12
They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by
the way they seemed happy to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It
was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to. (Teenagehood)
I was too, but I was confused between my feelings for him and my feelings for Homer.
Last night Id been holding hands with Homer, and feeling so warm and good about it,
and now here I was with Lee. (Relationships and love)
The thing that scared me most was the thought that maybe all the violent things Id
been doing, with the ride-on mower and the truck, had transformed me in the space of
a couple of nights into a raging monster. (Morality)
But on the other hand, it was unforgivable for Chris to have gone to sleep. Hed risked
the lives of all of us by being so slack. (Fear and danger, survival)
Take it easy? I yelled into his face. Yeah, thats what you were doing all right. If we
take it easy any more, were dead. Dont you understand how its all changed Chris?
Dont you understand that? If you dont, you might as well get a rifle and finish us all off
now. (Survival)
I do remember consoling Chris, who was sure that hed been the cause of my having a
nervous breakdown (Relationships)
Chp 13
I guess Ill keep fighting them, for the sake of my family. But after the war, if there is
such a time as after the war, Ill work damn hard to change things. I dont care if I
spend the rest of my life doing it. (Self-discovery and maturing)
Now we should decide if were going to stay here in hiding till the war sorts itself out, or
if we should get out there and do something about it. He paused, and when no one
spoke he continued. I know were meant to be schoolkids, too young to do much more
than clean a whiteboard for a teacher, but some of those soldiers I saw the other night
werent any older than us. (Courage and Survival)
Its our own families, said Corrie. Thats what everyones worried about, isnt it? I
guess Id fight for my country but Im going mad wondering whats happened to my
family. We dont know if theyre alive or dead. Were thinking and hoping that theyre at
the Showground, and were thinking and hoping that theyre being well treated, but we
dont know any of that. Carrie said. (Relationships)

If I could get my family and friends back, healthy, Id let these people have the stupid
houses and cars and things. Id go and live with my parents in a cardboard box at the
tip and be happy. Fiona said (Self discovery and maturing)
I know what our parents would say, Fi said. Theyd say that the most important thing
to them is our safety. They wouldnt want us dead in exchange for them living. In a way
were what gives their lives their meaning. But we cant be bound by that. We have to
do whats right for us. We have to find meanings for our own lives, and this might be
one of the ways we do it. (Courage)
We looked at Homer. I never thought Id have to hurt other people just so I could live
my own life, he said. .If I have to do it, I hope Ill have the strength, like Ellie did.
Whatever we do, I hope we can do it without hurting anyone. But if it happens ... well, it
happens. (Morality)
Well start to reclaim Wirrawee, as Robyn put it. (Courage)
There were Homer and Lee, both of whom I had strong and strange feelings for, but
made more complicated by Homers obvious attraction to Fi. It was an attraction he still
seemed too shy to do much about, although he was more confident with her now.
(Relationships)
e. I was a little afraid of the depth of feeling in those beautiful eyes. Lees eyes (Fear
and Relationships)
I felt guilty even thinking about love while our world was in such chaos, and especially
when my parents were going through this terrible thing. It was the steers at the
abattoirs all over again. But my heart was making its own rules and refusing to be
controlled by my conscience. I let it run wild, thinking of all the fascinating possibilities.
(Self-discovery and maturing )
Chp 14
. I was starting to think like Homer and plan for the long term. (Survival)
So youre saying it didnt mean anything? I dont know. It meant something, at the
time, and it means something now, but I dont know if it means what you seem to want
it to mean. Why dont we just say I was being a slut, and leave it at that. (relationships)
Look, I said, sorry I cant give you a list of my feelings about you, in point form and
alphabetical order. But I just cant. Im all confused. That day in the haystack was no
accident. It meant something. Im still trying to figure out what. (relationships)
back into thick bush and lost itself in a dark tunnel of undergrowth. Id been thinking for
a few days I might try to explore down there a bit, impossible and impassable though it
seemed. (Courage and curiosity)
There was a brooding atmosphere about the hut, about the whole place, that was not
peaceful or pleasant. Only the roses seemed to bring any warmth into the clearing. But
my curiosity was strong; it was unthinkable that I could come this far and not go
further. (Curiosity and fear)
Where have you been? he said. Weve been getting worried. He was quite angry. He
sounded like my father. Homer said (Leadership and self-discovery)
Chp 15
He wasnt immune from her though. When he broke off a big piece of fruit cake (Mrs
Grubers) and ate it, she burned his ears with a string of words like greedy and
selfish and pig. Homer was so used to being told off in his life that you might as well
have told a rock off for being sedimentary, but when Fi went for him he stood there like
a little kid, red in the face and wordless. (relationships)
Ellie, what am I going to do about Homer? Fiona said (Relationships and self-discovery)
I know what you mean! Yes, I think I do. Yes I do. I didnt at school, but honestly, he
was such a moron there. If anyone had said to me then that Id end up liking him, well,
Id have paid their taxi fare to the psychiatrist. He was so immature. (Relationships and
self-0discovery)
I still couldnt quite believe that I suddenly liked Homer so much. Hed been a
neighbour, a brother, for so long (relationships)]

Chp 16
I didnt feel like a criminal, but I didnt feel like a hero either. (Morality)
All I could think of to do was to trust to instinct. That was all I had really. Human laws,
moral
laws, religious laws, they seemed artificial and basic, almost childlike. I had a sense
within me often not much more than a striving to find the right thing to do, and I
had to have faith in that sense. Call it anything instinct, conscience, imagination but
what it felt like was a constant testing of everything I did against some kind of
boundaries within me; checking, checking, all the time (Morality)
Perhaps my lack of confidence, my tortuous habit of questioning and doubting
everything I said or did, was a gift, a good gift, something that made life painful in the
short run but in the long run might lead to ... what? The meaning of life? (Self-discovery
Chp 17
All theyd said was that they hadnt seen any of our families, but theyd been told they
were safe and at the Showground. When I heard this, it was such a relief that I sat down
quickly on the ground, as though Id had the breath knocked out of me. (Relationships)
That didnt bother me either Id always thought the law on that was typical of the
stupidity of most laws. I mean, the idea that at seventeen years, eleven months and
twenty-nine days you were too immature to touch alcohol but a day later you could get
wasted on a couple of slabs wasnt exactly bright. (Morality and teenagehood)
I had no problem with all the laws wed broken already so far we could have been
charged with stealing, driving without a licence, wilful damage, assault, manslaughter,
or murder maybe, going through a stop sign, driving without lights, breaking and
entering, and I dont know how many other things (Goodvs evil)
She grimaced but told me. Those three soldiers hit by the ride-on mower, two of them
died, they think. And two of the people we ran over. Oh, I said. Shed said it flatly and
calmly, but the shock was still terrible. Sweat broke out on my face and I felt quite
giddy robyn(Good vs evil and morality)
I heard the guy say, very suspiciously, something like You talking. I knew I was in
trouble then. I rolled across the floor to the other side of the bed and crawled out from
under the bedspread robyn said (survival)
Chp 18
Well, Homer began, weve got to make more decisions guys. Ive been looking up at
the sky every five minutes, waiting for the American troops to drop down in their big
green choppers, but theres no sign of them yet. And Corrie hasnt heard any news
flashes yet, to tell us that help is on its way. So we might just have to do it on our own
for a bit longer. (Survival and independence)
I know this might sound a bit different from what I said before, but I dont think it is. I
can understand why these people have invaded but I dont like what theyre doing and
I dont think theres anything very moral about them. This wars been forced on us, and
I havent got the guts to be a conscientious objector. I just hope we can avoid doing too
much thats filthy and foul and rotten. Robyn said (Morality and good vs evil)
Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the
little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitos too, calling them vicious and
bloodthirsty. All these words, words like evil and vicious, they meant nothing to
Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. (Self-disocvery and maturing and goodvs evil)
Chp 19
Now my instincts betrayed me: they told me to freeze; they stopped me from going
anywhere. I had to get rational again, and fast. I had to activate that determined voice
in my brain: If you do nothing, youll die. Move, but move slowly. Be controlled. Dont
panic (Survival)

I was surprised and a little alarmed to realise how much I was starting to think like a
soldier (Survival)
Yes, it was a good plan. It was very clever. And maybe the thing I liked most about it
was the effect it had on Lee. He was determined to do it. He lifted his head more and
more as we talked; he became outspoken, he started smiling and laughing. Hed been
depressed a lot of the time since he copped the bullet, but now he actually said to me,
If we do this, if we succeed, Ill be able to feel pride again (Good vs evil)

Chp 20
I admired her courage in taking on the job Homer had given her, because I guess true
courage is when youre really scared but you still do it. I was really scared, but Fi was
really really scared. (courage)
Bye, Fi whispered. Love you. There was a pause, then the answer. Yeah, I love you
too Fi. For Homer to say that to anyone was pretty good; for him to say it with Lee and
me listening was amazing. (Courage and relationships)
Wait, Fi said. What? Can I do it? Ive always wanted to break a window. You should
have joined Homers Greek Roulette gang, I said, but I handed over the rock. She
giggled and drew back her arm and smashed the rock hard into the window, then
jumped back as glass showered over us both. (Self-discovery and courage)
Its no good, I said at last. Well just have to take the first one and risk it with no
brakes. Ill use the gears as much as I can. (Risk and courage)
I was so nervous that it seemed to be the only thing I could see. My eyes and mind
focused entirely on it; nothing else existed for me at that moment. I climbed it like a
possum, scratching my hands but not feeling any pain. The trouble was that if they
did see us wed be, not like possums up a tree, but like rats up a drainpipe. There was
no escape from here. (Survival and courage)
Chp 21
Fi seemed delicate and timid, and she even claimed herself that she was, but she had a
determination I hadnt recognised before. There was a spirit to her, a fire burning inside
her somewhere (Relationships)
Yes, said Fi, but I dont think he wants to have much to do with them any more. Hes
changed so much, dont you think? (Self-discovery and maturing)
But it occurred to me as I listened to Fi, that the real reason I felt attracted to Homer
lately, attracted in powerful and puzzling ways, was that I was jealous of losing him. He
was my brother. As I didnt have a brother and he didnt have a sister, wed sort of
adopted each other. Wed grown up together. I could say things to Homer that no one
else could get away with (Relationships)
Hes so different to anyone Ive ever known. Its like hes coming out of my dreams
sometimes. He seems so much more mature than most of those guys at school. I dont
know how he stands them. I guess thats why he keeps to himself so much. But you
know, I get the feeling that hell do something great in life; I dont know what, be
famous or be Prime Minister or something. I cant see him staying in Wirrawee all his
life. I just think theres so much to him. The way he took that bullet wound was
incredible, Fi said. He was so calm about it. If that had happened to me Id still be in
shock. (Self-discovery and maturing)
For me the tension grew as the time passed. I just wanted to get it over with, this mad
reckless thing that wed talked ourselves into doing. (Survival)
I pressed the accelerator and the tanker lumbered forward. We had about five hundred
metres to go and I was pumping adrenalin so hard I felt immune to danger, to bullets,
to anything. (Survival)
Although I had a hundred metres to go it suddenly looked forever. I felt that I would
never reach my target, that I could never cover so much ground, that I could run for the
rest of my life and not get to safety. That was a terrible moment, when I came very
close to death. I entered a strange state when I felt as though I was now in the territory

of death, even though no bullet had struck me. I dont know if a bullet had even been
fired. But if a bullet had struck me then I dont think I would have felt it. Only living
people can feel pain, and I was floating away from the world that living people inhabit.
(Survival)
Fi appeared and screamed, Oh Ellie, please!... It was the word please that reached
me I think: it made me feel that she needed me, that I was important to her. Our
friendship, love, whatever you want to call it, reached across the bare ground and
reeled me in. (relationships and courage)

Chp 22
I nodded a thank-you to him. It meant a lot to me, but not everything. If I knowingly did
things like blowing up bridges, then the fact that by sheer good luck no one was hurt
didnt let me off the hook. Once Id made my decision to go with the tanker Id been
ready to live with the consequences, whatever they were. (good vs Evil and morality)
The only thing Homer had left out was the way hed wept when hed found us both
safe. I saw the sweetness of Homer then, that hed had as a little guy, but which some
people probably thought hed lost as a teenager. (Self-discovery and maturing)
The only thing that got us going was a desire to get home, to see the other four again.
(relationships)
I choked on my sobs as I watched her lying there, her chest slowly rising and falling
with each gurgling breath. This was my dear Corrie, my lifelong friend. If Homer was my
brother, Corrie was my sister. Her face looked so calm, but I felt that there was a
terrible war being waged inside her body, a fight to the death. I straightened up and
turned to the others. (relationships)
No. I dont give a stuff whats rational and whats logical. Corries my mate and Im not
going to dump her and run. (Relationships)
Weve got to stick together, thats all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but
I dont want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell.
Humans do such terrible things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they
must be evil. But my heart still isnt convinced. I just hope we can survive. (Survival)