Red, Cherry Red Quotes

“Some men fall in love with a woman,
Some women fall in love with a man,
Some men fall in love with another man,
Some women fall in love with another woman -
But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland.

- Shetland”
― Jackie Kay, Red, Cherry Red

“The tall trees, compassionate, understood everything:
grief - they stood stock-still, branches drooped in despair;
fear - they exposed their many roots, tugged their gold hair;
anger - they shook in the storm, pointed their bony fingers.

- The World of Trees (inspired by the Forest of Burnley)”
― Jackie Kay, Red, Cherry Red

“I remember watching my grandmother build her fire,
the honest kindling, the twisted newspaper,
the tiny tower of good black coal.
And how, once lit, she'd hold a sheet of newspaper
across the fire and say, 'watch it suck, dear'.

- An Old Woman's Fire”
― Jackie Kay, Red, Cherry Red