The Girl Who Came Back Quotes

“Sometimes a line has to be drawn to say that it’s not about generations or a change in attitudes. It isn’t younger people versus older, men against women or straight versus gay. It’s about arseholes being arseholes.”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Girl Who Came Back

“I wonder if I should apologise. It feels like I should but that’s probably British guilt. If there’s anything we do well as a people, it’s say sorry. That and queue, I guess. And talk about the weather.”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Girl Who Came Back

“The greatest function of a mobile isn’t the ability to call or text, nor the Internet connection; it’s the wall it puts up.”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Girl Who Came Back

“It’s easy to abdicate responsibility by saying it’s a generational thing, but that isn’t an excuse, not when other people’s lives are involved. If so, where does it end? Slave masters were misunderstood do-gooders trying to give immigrants a purpose? Ku Klux Klan members didn’t know any different? Sometimes a line has to be drawn to say that it’s not about generations or a change in attitudes. It isn’t younger people versus older, men against women or straight versus gay. It’s about arseholes being arseholes.”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Girl Who Came Back

“There’s something bone-shiveringly horrifying when it becomes clear that parents are mortal. To most kids, mums and dads are superheroes; the fountains of all knowledge and wisdom. They can do anything… until they can’t.”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Girl Who Came Back