Pig Iron Quotes

“Dad paid for him to gan ower to Naples for voice training and schooling, what with there not being much opportunity for opera in Govan and the Gorbals and all that, and how he got himself a few small singing parts but really it was too late to get into it all by then. Why, I ask. Because ice cream was in his blood son, Arty says all serious and sombre”
― Benjamin Myers, Pig Iron

“But no. There’s always summat or someone sticking their nebby nose in. There’s always new enemies lining up left, right and bloody centre, and all for what. All for being born under a queer moon into the wrong family, that’s what. Cursed from birth and that. Shat out like a bloody turd and treated like one ever since.”
― Benjamin Myers, Pig Iron