Wish I Was Here Quotes

“She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if by walking long enough, hard enough, she might forget.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don't you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strangers offer them things. People notice the beautiful; the beautiful are constantly acknowledged.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you know you've noticed. Maybe between the first time when you're staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there's a silence. A pause.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“She was a contradiction like that, you know. The things she wrote down were warmer than her, in person.
That sounds like she’s dead, he thought.
Well, in a way, she is, you know, in a way she is dead.
— 'How To Get Away With Suicide”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“During this period I feel as if some part of myself has been banished to another part of the world.I feel as if I cannot live my life to the full and feel everything I’m capable of feeling unless I have this love. The pleasure goes from me; the delight goes. Nothing means anything.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“Do things in your own time. Everybody should like how they choose. We never know what goes behind the blinds.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here

“Make sure that the very different colors go next to each other so it looks deliberate. You don't want to look as if you've just run out of colour and gone for the next nearest thing.”
― Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here