The Smell of Apples Quotes

“(Marnus, 63)”

“(Marnus, 99)”

“(Marnus, 67)”

“(Marnus, 45)”

“(Marnus, 179)”

“(Marnus, 150)”

“(Marnus, 19-20)”

“(Marnus, Dad, 172)”

“(Marnus, Frikkie, 166)”

“I smell the apple in his hand. It smells sour.”

“It's the most dreadful of dreadful disgraces if a woman gets raped.”

“Then Ilse says she thinks the story is about much more than just whaling.”

“But then he's a Coloured!" Frikkie cries out. I thought he was as dark as anything.”

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“His back is turned in our direction. Across it, stretching from one shoulder right down to the other hip, we can see the scar, curled almost like a snake.”

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“My name is really Marnus, but when Dad speaks to me he mostly says ‘my son’ or ‘my little bull’ and him and Mum also like calling me ‘my little piccanin.’””

“This is detente," Dad says. It's a soldier holding up a black arm with pink meat hanging out where it was cut from the body. I close my eyes, because I don't want to look at it.”

“One year we didn’t even see a single [whale] and then Jan said it was because the bay doesn’t belong to nature anymore. He says the bay has been taken over by the factories.””