My Left Foot Quotes

“was too young to know if my heart misbehaved itself in any way,”
― Christy Brown, My Left Foot

“I wanted desperately to say something, not merely to my family, not merely to my friends, but rather to everyone, to the world as a whole. There was something in me, some inner urge to speak, and I wanted to get it out of me, to communicate it to others and make them understand it. I felt I had found something, something I had been looking for ever since I began to think and feel about myself. It had taken years to find, but now I was positive that I had discovered it at last, and suddenly I wanted to fling it to the four winds and let it go round the world, bearing its message into everyone’s heart.

It wasn’t just something about myself, but about all who had a life similar to my own, a life bounded and shut in on all sides by the high walls of a narrow, suppressed life. I felt that I had at last found a way of scaling those walls and breaking loose from the shadow of them, a way of taking my place in the sun and of playing my part in the world along with the able-bodied.”
― Christy Brown, My Left Foot

“If I could never really be like other people, then at least I would be like myself and make the best of it.”
― Christy Brown, My Left Foot

“Daha önce pek fazla okumuyordum. Kitaplar evimizde pek sık görülmezdi. Ekmeğin daha önemli olduğu düşünülürdü. Karnımızı doyurmak zihinlerimizi doğurmaktan daha önemli bir işti.”
― Christy Brown, My Left Foot

“Writing may be immortal, but it does not bridge the gap between two human beings as the voice may, and oh, I would rather have an hour's fierce argument with a pal or a few moments of soft chatter with a girl than write the greatest book on earth”
― Christy Brown, My Left Foot