Deaf Sentence Quotes

“(did anyone ever use a semi-colon in a suicide note?).”
― David Lodge, Deaf Sentence: A Novel

“What?’ he said. I’m sure he heard me perfectly well, but like most deaf people he’s got in the habit of saying ‘what?’ automatically to every conversational gambit - I notice myself doing it sometimes.”
― David Lodge, Deaf Sentence: A Novel

“The diagnosis of high-frequency deafness cast a faint shadow over his happiness, but their mutual enjoyment of sex was not much affected, the sounds which accompany it being mostly non-verbal and low frequency in wavelength. Inevitably,”
― David Lodge, Deaf Sentence: A Novel

“But young parents, educated middle-class ones anyway, are very jumpy these days, they get so much information from the media about all the things that could be wrong with their child - autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, allergies, obesity and so on - they’re in a constant state of panic, watching their offspring like hawks for warning signs.”
― David Lodge, Deaf Sentence: A Novel