A New Kind of Dreaming - 11A
by Stacey Elliot
1. Chapter 2 - 3
1.1. "Some well meaning, church going, middle-class do-gooder".
1.2. "You better watch out mate. Don't say I didn't warn you, you watch out".
1.3. "A sense of uneasiness and forboding had settled upon him the moment he stepped off the bus.
2. Chapter 4 - 6
2.1. "As he walked he got the feeling that someone or something was near by him".
2.2. "The houses took on a dead and sinister quality. The town felt soulless"
2.3. "The night settled upon him like a thick, suffocating blanket dropped from the sky".
2.4. "A tiny smile twitched at the cops mouth, and he raised his right hand in a kind of half salute. His eyes locked on Jamie".
2.5. "Remember people around here notice things. And let's face it - you don't have the best record" (Lorraine)
2.6. "Don't go digging around in the past. Not in Port Barren. Let people have their secrets".
2.7. "It was as if he was being called, drawn by an unseen force".
2.8. "One thing was obvious. This wasn't a local boat".
2.9. "The whole boat had a curiously dead feeling about it. As if it hadn't been abandoned but had never been alive".
3. Chapter 7 - 8
3.1. "He had a vague recollection of some strange dreams, screams and shouts and gunshots. But no matter how hard he tried to get the images to crystalize in his mind, they remained lucid".
3.2. "What did I tell you before I left? Don't trust the little bugger". (Butcher)
3.3. "A sudden overpowering presence invaded him, swamping his mind with panic and fear. It was the feeling of Port Barren amplified by a 1000 times".
3.4. "He thought he heard a girls voice".
3.5. "You kept talking about a boat. And a girl" (Lorraine)
3.6. There was a sound, a gentle quiet desperate whisper. There were voices, male deep and harsh arguing and shouting, floating in and out of his hearing".
3.7. "There were hands lifting, pulling and grabbing him from the soft coolness out in the night, into the heat of dust, into a steel cage, into darkness".
4. Chapter 11 & 12
4.1. "Not haunted exactly, just… bad"
4.2. "When I first arrived there were more kids in Port Barren than nowadays. That's the way things tend to go around here - sometimes the town is packed, sometimes it's virtually empty".
4.3. Cause the bloke who found the boat and towed it back to town 6 years ago, was Port Barren's young, new Police Sargent, Elliot Butcher
4.4. "When I first arrived there were more kids in Port Barren than nowadays. That's the way things tend to go around here - sometimes the town is packed, sometimes it's virtually empty".
5. 15 & 16
5.1. "McPherson's words echoed in his memory - 'she wasn't the first person Butcher killed that day'."
6. 17 - 19
6.1. "He knew that in the minds of the people of Port Barren he was guilty of the window vandalism, and who knew what else".
6.2. "This town, it's full of stories. Some Aboriginal, some white, some Malay, some Indonesian. All sorts of different ideas".
6.3. "You come to this town think that you're something different, something new. But you're not, you know. People have been coming and going from this part of the country for much longer than either you or I have been around. First the Aborigines. They came for their dreaming, to visit their sacred places, to hunt, for ceremonies".
6.4. "They search for a new place to belong. Sooner or later though, they all seem to come to Port Barren".
6.5. "Sometimes there is no peace. A wanderer arrives and is driven away. A lost one comes and yet still remains lost. Then the balance is interrupted. Their pain settles across the land. When this happens, the people must wait for another to come - a wanderer or a lost one who can balance the pain. Can restore the land. Can bring peace".
6.6. "To live here, you have to learn that life is a balance between being a wanderer and a lost one".
6.7. "You know the funny part? If you'd kept your mouth shut back in town I would have just arrested you for burning the school down and sent you off to prison for ten years. But you had to tell me how clever you'd been, didn't you?"
7. End of the book quotes
7.1. "He said nothing about Butcher's hold over Lorraine".
7.1.1. Jamie's feeling towards and protection of Lorraine
7.2. "He also remembered the touch of her hand that night at Archie's".
7.3. "He missed having his own family around".
7.4. "Archie thought about his answer for a long time, then finally he smiled. It was the first real smile that Jamie had seen on him. His teeth gleamed in the light and his blue eyes sparkled. 'Neither mate. You're a local'".
7.4.1. Archie's connection to Jamie
7.5. "The place held no fear and fascination for either of them anymore"
7.5.1. The boat
7.6. "It seems sad… She came all this way. Died like that, but didn't even get a proper burial. Not much of a welcome, is it?"
7.6.1. Cameron about the girl having had no welcome
7.7. "For a few seconds they could see it drifting down into the green depths, then gradually it vanished. 'Welcome'"
7.7.1. Jamie - giving the girl a burial AND welcoming her . Nice link with earlier quote
7.8. "At that moment the weight seemed to lift from his shoulders and belly".
7.8.1. Jamie after burying the girl - sense of purpose/accomplishment