Jackie Kay Quotes

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up...

You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you...

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiti...

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight...

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, b...

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own ...

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, y...

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could ...

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid w...

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What k...

The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don't you think? They get smiled at th...

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sle...