Annabel Pitcher quotes
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“If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.”
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“In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.”
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“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”
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“Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?”
-- Annabel PitcherSource : Annabel Pitcher (2012). “Ketchup Clouds”, p.139, Hachette UK
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“That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.”
-- Annabel PitcherSource : "Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher - review" by Mal Peet, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2013.
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“We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.”
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“Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.”
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“Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.”
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“Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.”
-- Annabel PitcherSource : Annabel Pitcher (2012). “Ketchup Clouds”, p.170, Hachette UK
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“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.”
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“People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.”
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