Jackie Kay quotes
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“(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving: I wonder if that choice has anything to do with genetics. ... I want to take mine home and look after them so that they live for days. I might spray the leaves, and make sure they sit in an easterly window, and keep them out of the direct sun.”
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“Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.”
-- Jackie KaySource : Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road”, p.106, Pan Macmillan
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“How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.”
-- Jackie KaySource : Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan
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“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”
-- Jackie KaySource : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.31, Pan Macmillan
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“Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.”
-- Jackie KaySource : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan
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“These days I can't tell what I really feel.”
-- Jackie KaySource : Jackie Kay (2007). “Darling: New & Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
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“Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.”
-- Jackie KaySource : Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
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