Bad Fruit Quotes

“I’m so frightened then—for Mama, for Julia, for her children and my own—the relentless line of mothers and daughters hurting and inflicting hurt.”
― Ella King, Bad Fruit

“There's an old Jewish teaching about how a rumour is like a feather pillow split open to the wind. You can never get back all the feathers.”
― Ella King, Bad Fruit

“That's your solution? To stay? For money?"

She shakes her head, as if I don't understand. "It's not just the money. What you said is protection; she can never hurt us again. Any time she tries to piss us off, sublet our flats, refuse to pay our tuition fees, we just mention the shed." Here eyes are luminous. "Don't you see? This is our inheritance.”
― Ella King, Bad Fruit