Weird Sister Quotes

“I got so used to saying good-bye that when he disappeared for real I didn't notice.”
― Kate Pullinger, Weird Sister

“She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.”
― Kate Pullinger, Weird Sister

“She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.”
― Kate Pullinger, Weird Sister

“I hope he was pushed." "Why." asks Jenny, astonished. "Because if he jumped, he'll never have any rest. He'll never have any peace.”
― Kate Pullinger, Weird Sister

“Jenny lies in bed chanting her resolutions. She is full of resolutions. Number one: Don’t eat. Jenny is tall and thin – a childish thin, she carries her breasts high on her ribcage and keeps her shoulders rounded, turned in, she is hipless, thighless, has no belly – but she is not too thin, and she would like to be too thin. She aspires to anorexia, but she hasn’t got the will and looks on this as a failure of sorts. Come mealtime she forgets, and eats what is put in front of her. Jenny is a good girl.”
― Kate Pullinger, Weird Sister