QUOTATIONS - IMPORTANT QUOTES AND ANALYSIS

The following quotations are important at various points in the story.
(Beacon Press, 1979):

1. ‘I don't have a name for the thing that happened to me, but I don't feel safe any more.'

(pg. 17; Dana has just returned from her first time travel and now feels unsafe for the first time in her life.)

2. Fact then: Somehow, my travels crossed time as well as distance. Another fact: The boy was the focus of my travels - perhaps the cause of them.

(pg. 24; Dana comes to this conclusion after she returns to Rufus for the second time.) ........


..........18. Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.

(pg. 183; Dana comes to this conclusion as she tries to do the wash with an unhealed back.)

 

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