For Island Voices

2) Find two quotes from each story and write down the page number

Paper
"After all,it's just paper gains so far."-pg 5
"What! Sell at a fraction at which I bought them! How can this be tolerated!"-pg 7

2) The Matyrdom of Helena Rodrigues
"Helena's tactics enabled her to tyrannize most people -with normally sensitive consciences" (pg 12 )

"It was Caroline"s daily effort to make George's scruples into absurdity."-pg 15

3) Sundowner
"So sincere was the greeting that Das.forgetting his pretensions to eqalitarianism"-pg 0
"Yes, tuan. Whatever the tuan says." - pg 22

4) Tanjong Rhu
'They are special glasses,big ones to help you see things faraway."-pg 31
"What! Does the little monkey fall slient when the tiger roars?"-pg 35

5) Evening under Frangipani
"She laughed a little at her own moralizing tone"-pg 53
"Treats, treats, that's all you Singaporeans ever think about." - pg 72

6) Lee
"Hey,I'm on hiatus from conventions."-pg 91
"What I mean is they're detached-from you-but even the most artificial of them,even the most deliberately constructed and deliberately aligned "-pg 98

7) A History of Tea
"a ghost steam into the humid air." - pg 108
"There were many inconsistencies " - pg 117

8) A Dream of China
"The Chinese are as bad as the Jews when it comes to making money." - pg 127
"That is where I truly belonged,among skyscrappers with glass fronts and gold-encrusted orchids." - pg 133

9) Release
"The man stood in the doorway,silhouetted against the corrridor light ." - pg 147
"She sat down, blinded by the scream that filled her mind." - pg 148

10) An Orbituary for Fifth Aunt Come Late
"She was my aunt but I didn't make it a point to be her niece" - pg 149
"My aunt smiled and rubbed her hands,rubbing her life,the life layered under the huge redness of her hands." - pg 161

11) Corridor
"the bravest ones further behind to make sure that nobody would run away from the gruesome scene." - pg 169
"And like an answer or a question the warm amber lights in her living-room came on." - pg 175

12) Mid-Autumn
"Instead she grinned from the photo she sent,spreading her bloodied hands beside the brick kiln in another continent." - pg 176
"The grains bit my skin as I swept the sand in search of lantern?"-pg 179

13) Hamid and the Hand of Fate
"He breathed in her talcum scent,sweet yet faintly laced with sour sweat" -pg 189
"He told God he accepted what had happened to him." - pg 194

14) The Move
"Perhaps I should take the pomegranate tree with me,she reflected." - pg 204
"and they began trundling northward up the island to a new life" - pg 211

15) Pastime
"You know this is just a story,a story to pass time.This isn't real life!" - pg 214
"It's a hobby, a pastime. It's not real life." - pg 220