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Taronga Quotes
10 of the best book quotes from Taronga
01
Hopeful of a less brutal life, he escapes to Sydney - only to be further disillusioned.
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
Ben
character
feelings
ᐧ
escaping
ᐧ
normal life
ᐧ
Sydney
ᐧ
less brutal life
ᐧ
disillusioned
concepts
02
Ben, who has a telepathic ability to control animals, leads a hazardous existence in the bush west of the Blue Mountains.
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
Ben
character
telepathic ability
ᐧ
to control animals
ᐧ
hazardous existence
ᐧ
bush west
concepts
03
Fourteen-year-old Ben lives rough in the bush outside Sydney, surviving in the wreckage of an Australia that fell apart after global catastrophe.
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
Ben
character
wreckage
ᐧ
telepathic ability
ᐧ
to control animals
ᐧ
hazardous existence
ᐧ
bush west
ᐧ
the Blue Mountains
concepts
04
Is it an island of safety in the midst of so much danger? Or is it really the most sinister place of all?
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
fiction
ᐧ
safety
ᐧ
danger
ᐧ
sinister
ᐧ
post-apocalypse
ᐧ
in the midst
concepts
05
“Ben crouched beside the dying animal, aware that he could do nothing to save it now -that in a sense that he had done too much already.”
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
Ben
character
sadness
ᐧ
suffering
ᐧ
escaping
ᐧ
animal friendship
ᐧ
dying animal
concepts
06
Then, at the heart of the city he comes upon Taronga Zoo, which has been strangely unaffected by the general chaos.
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
Ben
character
chaos
ᐧ
Australia
ᐧ
the heart of the city
ᐧ
Taronga Zoo
ᐧ
unaffected
ᐧ
strangely
concepts
07
Two years after the Last Days, Australia has become a dangerous place, and a battle-ground for survival.
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
survival
ᐧ
hope
ᐧ
youth fiction
ᐧ
two years
ᐧ
the Last Days
ᐧ
dangerous place
ᐧ
battle-ground
ᐧ
post-apocalypse
concepts
08
“He had learned from long experience that the roo, lulled by his Call, would ignore her instinctive fear of the open sunlight and follow him.”
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
Ben
character
fear
ᐧ
ignore
ᐧ
animal instincts
ᐧ
to learn
ᐧ
learn by experience
ᐧ
to be lulled
ᐧ
open sunlight
concepts
09
Ben has the strange ability to soothe and control animals, and this makes him valuable to the older and crueler boy who hunts the animals Ben Calls.
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
Ben
character
valuables
ᐧ
hard life
ᐧ
to soothe
ᐧ
to control animals
ᐧ
strange ability
ᐧ
older and crueler boy
concepts
10
“He could see the dingo immediately above him, its coat a deep gold in the sunlight, its head cooked curiously to one side. Its eyes, he notices, conveyed a sense not of alarm, but of trust.”
Victor Kelleher
author
Taronga
book
immediate
ᐧ
jungles
ᐧ
youth fiction
ᐧ
the dingo
ᐧ
its coat
ᐧ
deep gold
ᐧ
head cooked
concepts
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feelings
escaping
normal life
Sydney
Ben
less brutal life
disillusioned
telepathic ability
to control animals
hazardous existence
bush west
wreckage
the Blue Mountains
fiction
safety
danger
sinister
post-apocalypse
in the midst
sadness
suffering
animal friendship
dying animal
chaos
Australia
the heart of the city
Taronga Zoo
unaffected
strangely
survival
hope
youth fiction
two years
the Last Days
dangerous place
battle-ground
fear
ignore
animal instincts
to learn
learn by experience
to be lulled
open sunlight
valuables
hard life
to soothe
strange ability
older and crueler boy
immediate
jungles
the dingo
its coat
deep gold
head cooked
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