Quotes by Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

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The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company. — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimper — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe i — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you know you've noticed — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life. — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don't you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strang — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is th — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past. — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better — Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here